CONTENTS. 

Page 

Preface 5 

History 7 

Psychology of Hypnotism 27 

Hypnotic Induction 41 

How to awaken the Subject. 88 

Post Hypnotic suggestions 92 

Auto on self suggestions 95 

Hypnotic induction of Catalepsy 107 

Telepathy 110 

Medical Hypnosis 1 16 

Manifestations 120 

Looking it over 126 

Cleopatra's Dream 134 



" The Lever That Moves The World. * 



HYPNOTISM 



Its Psychology 
and Application* 





By C E. BELCHER, M. D. 

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DEDICATORY. 

Hypnotism has survived the period of 
discredited theory, and has burst forth from 
its Chrysalys state to expand in winged flight 
and ever living truth. 

To those who desire light and truth and 
power, this book is dedicated by 

THE AUTHOR. 

Oift 
Aulkop 
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Preface* 
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In writing this work on Hypnotism, my 
one object has been to instruct. I sincerely 
believe that I will have been successful in 
the accomplishment of that object. 

My reasons for having quoted from the 
writings of different noted authors, have been 
that you might have the benefit of all known 
of this so-called occult science. 

I believe I have "Sounded the depths" 
and have made plain herein the wonderful 
workings and power of Hypnotism. 

I have this assurance from many who 
have made thorough and careful study of 
psychic force and cause, who have from time 
to time read my manuscript. In consequence 
of this assurance and my own convictions, 
which are founded upon results of years of 
investigation and study, I send this out to 
the world, believing that the mysteries to a 
great extent have been unveiled. 

Of this I am certain, that one with an 
honest desire to learn, one who will carefully 
study and act upon the advice within, may 



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in a short period of time learn all that I and 
many others have learned by years of per- 
sistent application and studious investigation 
of this at one time hidden mystery. 

I have endeavored to so arrange the story, 
the methods of manipulation, the causes and 
reasons for, as well as the results, that the 
reader may be and will be led up to that 
high point of perfect confidence, where all 
may be seen as I see it, and that magnificent 
attainment of mastery of self be gained. This 
mastery of self is in store for you, a birthright 
from the all-powerful Creator. 

The wondrous Christ attained this mas- 
tery and through its gigantic force, darkness 
has been dispelled, the beacon light shines 
o'er a greater portion of the globe, and 
through the force of that mastery the glorious 
halo is even now scintillating through the 
benighted corners of the earth. 

Mastery of self is the key to power. It 
is yours for the grasping. 

THE AUTHOR. 

Oct 25th, 1901. 



HISTORY. 



HISTORY. 

The many wonderful and so called oc- 
cult manifestations due to Hypnotism, have 
been developed through the ages little by 
little, until now, a fixed science has been 
evolved, and Hypnotism is acknowledged as 
a science, distinct, standing by itself, as do 
the other sciences, and recognized as one of 
the greatest of all sages, by thinkers and 
scholars. 

Hypnotism the magnificent, Hypnotism 
"the lever that moves the world," the pe- 
culiar and mighty manifestations of this 
more than mighty force, are brought about 
by soul power producing the Hypnotic con- 
dition, or state in those, who to a greater or 
less extent are controlled by it. 

Since mind first dawned, it has been the 
great all-powerful force, controlling, prompt- 
ing, binding, moving all organic life to some 
end. Mind and soul alone control, and, 
coupled with a healthy physique, is the 
great wonder worker of earth, is now, has 
been, and will be, and through this soul, and 
by this soul controlling, sometimes cursing, 
often swaying, but at all times holding. 

This soul power producing Hypnotic 
state, moulds today, destiny of man, church, 
and state, as in the ages past. 



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The Priesthood of Egypt were adepts 
in soul transference. They held for ages, as 
in a vice, the very mind and soul of that 
ancient and mighty people, yet the few con- 
trolled, their lives, their very homes, their 
grand country was calmed or swayed, led on 
to blood or back to peace by the few, and 
could the voiceless Sphinx of the loitering 
Nile, but speak, it would give but further 
proof of the perfect degree of the "Mystic 
Art," which was developed at that remote 
date. If history, from its dawn, could have 
been indelibly inscribed upon the tablets of 
time and truthfully kept, startling indeed 
would be the tale unfolded of power, power 
of love; power of hate, happiness and despair 
brought out through the mystic workings of 
this occult force. 

jBack, back in the dim ages of early 
Egypt, when the basking lotus peeped up 
from its sunny bed upon the calm bosom of 
that lovely, scarce rippling stream upon ' 
those mystic shrines, and bent its ear to 
those encantations and priestly rites which, 
weird and soft and low, then wild with 
dance and revelry, sinking again to the sweet, 
calm, happy well atuned melody of lute, 
and voice in scarce audible prayer, brought 



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on the spell the Priesthood sought. Then 
Egypt was peopled with prosperous and 
happy husbandmen, or overrun with the 
wild, half- crazed warrior, led to blood by 
what? the magnetic influence of the few con- 
trolled by "masters of the mystic spell." 
The populace then, as now, did the bidding 
of the few, and mind ruled. 

So down the centuries, from generation, 
to generation, by the laws of progeniture and 
heredity, has been passed this occult force, 
until by birthright, it is now ours, ours to 
command. The whole world of man, as 
susceptible to the power of the "Mystic Art," 
as were our progenitors, and to the whole 
world of man has been transmitted this 
same mystic force to use for personal power, 
and even public control. No race of people 
was ever known without controlling minds; 
no great book was ever written, except 
through the confidence given by magnetic 
spell, and inspiration through auto sugges- 
tion. 

Painted upon the star studded, rounded 
arched dome of the Egyptian temple of 
Dendera, the Goddess Isis, holds by the hand 
a child, while with the other hand she 
makes passes in front of the little fellow 



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with all the fervor and impressiveness of a 
Hypnotic Operator. 

The idea of divination as brought about 
by intently gazing into vessels of liquid or at 
crystals, has for all time been a potent power 
in producing magnetic phenomena. The 
Magi of the Persians for thousands of years, 
have thrown themselves into the Hypnotic 
state by fixation of gaze. 

Diodorus of Sicily, wrote: "The Priest- 
hood of Ancient Egypt, asserted that Isis 
made himself manifest to men while sleep- 
ing, and gave them much information regard- 
ing remedies used in the treatment of the 
sick, and in this manner gave them such con- 
fidence in themselves, that they cured many 
patients despaired of by the Doctors." 

The Mythology of India represents Vish- 
na with hands extended and from the finger 
tips are issuing flames. From then until the 
present time many sensitive subjects, who 
are entirely en rapport with the Operator, 
affirm that they see these peculiar violet or 
bluish colored sparks or halo eminating from 
the finger* of the Operator. 

Hippocrates was a firm believer in Hyp- 
notic and somnambulistic phenomena. The 
Mountainists were called taskodrugites, be- 
cause of their habit of holding their fingers to 



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the mouth and nose while at prayer. 
Brugoch Pasha tells us of the most wonderful 
Hypnotic states induced by the Gnostic 
Schools in Egypt, during Divine Worship, in 
the first Century. At these times the eyes 
were closed, and many peculiar hallucinations 
were manifest, particularly, apparitions of 
Gods. In many convents of the Greek 
church have these peculiar Hypnotic con- 
ditions been noted. The most notable, per- 
haps, the Omphalopsychics, who by gazing 
at the Omphalos, or umbilicus, being in a 
Hypnotic state. 

That great Authority on Ethnology, 
Bastian, has shown to us the very close 
relationship of psychic manifestations, noted 
among the uncivilized to Hypnotism, and 
states "That a more exact study of 
Hypnotic phenomena by individual travel- 
ers would be of great service to popular 
Psychology; the phenomena which occur 
spontaneously among uncivilized populations 
should be more carefully examined and 
brought into closer relation with Hyp- 
notism." 

Nietzsche believes that the dream state 
of the civilized occurring during sleep often 
occurs among savages while in the waking 
condition; he writes: — 



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"We are all like savages in our dreams, the 
perfect clearness of dream ideas, which pre- 
supposes an unconditional faith in their 
reality, recalls conditions of primitive 
humanity when hallucinations were extra- 
ordinarily present." Among the religious 
rites of the Annamites the subject attains 
Hypnosis by fixing his gaze upon burning 
sticks attached behind the ear of the 
Magician, who attracts by turning his head. 

Down through the middle ages have 
these phenomena been manifest. The Priest 
Gastner, in 1772, demonstrated undeniably 
the existence of this power by so called 
stigmas and witchcraft, producing by his 
exorcisms, total insensibility. 

During the sixteenth and seventeenth 
centuries, Father Kirchner, Burgraeve, Heli- 
notius, Maxwell and others, considered that 
Hypnotic power lay in the magnet, while 
earlier, Paracelsus taught that there was a 
double or animal Magnetism, and that the 
Magnetic fluid of a strong and healthy 
individual drew toward it, and to it, the 
weaker .and deteriorated magnetic fluid of 
the unhealthy one. 

At the close of every century, there 
seems to have been an unusual excitement 
and irresistible attraction toward the investi- 



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gation of occult sciences; does the cycle of 
the Centuries still control as the ancients 
truly believed and fervently taught? Can 
the moon, whose power lifts the seas, all the 
seas, lift us? The phenomenon of reproduc- 
tion in all organic life is controlled and reg- 
ulated by the moon as certainly and as 
regularly as are held in their orbit the worlds 
of the Infinite Universe. 

I believe those ancient people grasped 
through deep thought, or highest inspir- 
ation, ideas and knowledge of the occult, 
which, to some of them at least, unveiled the 
mysteries, that they indeed were en rapport 
with the infinite Begetter. Controlled by 
the benign laws of the Almighty God, and 
that soul to soul they entered His presence. 

Down toward the close of the eigh- 
teenth century while the whole world was 
expecting and hoping for something new 
and startling; just when the overheated 
temperaments of the populace were in a 
receptive and expectant state; willing that 
anything new come, even though it be 
magical, there arose prominently before the 
world, a man destined to fill the already 
waiting minds with wonder; one who had 
been traduced and maligned; one who had 
heretofore been to them a charlatan, and in 



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their minds an impostor, but at this time the 
whole English speaking world listened, 
halted in their dissentions and believed. 
That man was Autoine Mesmer. His ideas 
and teachings led to the yast researches in 
psychological manifestations, which have led 
to what is known to the world to-day as 
Hypnotism. 

Mesmer was born in Germany, in 1734, 
and at an early age turned his thoughts 
toward the mysterious, occult and unfathom- 
able. When but thirty-two years of age, 
he presented to the faculty of that renowned 
city of Vienna, his thesis for the degree of 
Doctor of Medicine. The subject of his 
thesis was: "The Influence of the Stars and 
Planets as Curative Powers." 

He was granted his Diploma, and short- 
ly afterward, falling in with a noted Jesuit, 
Father Hell, learned of the similarity of 
their ideas, and strengthened by new faith, 
he began a series of marvelous cures by the 
use of a magnet. He taught that the sun, 
moon and stars all acted upon the human 
body by means of a mysterious fluid which 
he called animal magnetism. He made 
many wonderful cures in Vienna, and 
for some unknown reason went to Paris 
where he very soon gathered around him- 



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self, converts among the learned men of the 
Medical class, particularly, the Count D. 
Artois, a very learned physician and a Pro- 
fessor of the Faculty of Medicine. He be- 
came very popular. Hundreds were anxious 
to be magnetized, and his business became 
so enormous that he was under the necessity 
of employing assistants. One of his follow- 
ers, the noted Deluge, Librarian at the 
Jardendes de Plantes, who was called the 
Hippocrates of Magnetism, left this account 
of Mesmer, and his experiments: 

"In the middle of a large room stood an 
oak tub four or five feet in diameter, and 
one foot deep. It was closed by a lid made 
in two pieces, and encased in another tub or 
bucket. At the bottom of the tub a number 
of bottles were laid in convergent rows so 
that the neck of each bottle turned toward 
the center. Other bottles filled with mag- 
netized water tightly corked down were 
laid in divergent rows with their necks 
turned outward. Several rows were then 
piled up and then the apparatus was pro- 
nounced to be at high pressure. The tub 
was then filled with water to which was 
sometimes added, powdered glass and iron 
filings; then were also some dry tubs that 
were prepared in the same manner, but 



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without any additional water. The lid was 
perforated to admit of the passage of mov- 
able, bent, iron rods, which could be applied 
to different parts of the patients' bodies. 
A long rope was also fastened to a ring in 
the lid, and this the patients placed loosely 
around their limbs. No diseases offensive 
to the sight were treated, such as sores, 
wens or deformities. 

The patients then drew near one anoth- 
er, touching hands, arms, knees or feet. The 
handomest, youngest and wisest magnetizers 
held, also, an iron rod with which they 
touched the dilatory or stubborn patients. 
The rods and ropes had all undergone 
a preparation, and in a very short space of 
time patients felt the Magnetic influence. 
The women being the most easily effected, 
were almost at once seized with fits of yawn- 
ing and stretching. Their eyes closed, their 
legs ^ave way and they seemed to suffocate. 
In vain did musical glasses and harmonicas 
resound, the piano and voices re-echoed. 
These supposed aids only seemed to increase 
the patients' convulsive movements. Sar- 
donic laughter, piteous moans and torrents 
of tears burst forth on all sides. The 
bodies were thrown back in spasmodic jerks; 
the respirations sounded like death rattles; 



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the most terrifying symptoms were exhib- 
ited. Then suddenly the actors of this 
strange scene would frantically or rapturous- 
ly rush toward one another, rejoicing, em- 
bracing or thrusting away their neighbors 
with every appearance of horror. 

" Another room was padded and pre- 
sented a different spectacle. There, women 
beat their heads against the padded walls 
or rolled on the cushioned-covered floor in 
fits of suffocation. In the midst of this 
panting, grieving throng, Mesmer dressed in 
a lilac coat, moved about extending a magic 
wand toward the least suffering, halting in 
front of the most violently excited, and 
gazing steadily into their eyes while he held 
both their hands in his, bringing the middle 
finger in immediate contact to establish the 
communication. 

"At another moment he would, by a 
motion of open hands and extended fingers, 
operate with the great current, crossing and 
uncrossing his arms with wonderful rapidity 
to make the final passes.'' 

Baily was also an eye witness of these 
scenes and he writes of the wonderful 
influence of the Magnetizer, and of the 
manner in which by a glance or some pass, 



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tie could waken the sleepers from their 
somnolence. 

The finest people were attracted to him 
to witness these Demoniacal convulsions and 
undoubtedly to experience them, which in 
many cases lead to attacks of genuine 
nervous prostration. 

In time, the better thinking class be- 
3ame exasperated, and public opinion was 
aroused against Mesmer, who, made mad, as 
it were, by his successes, was led away from 
bis legitimate vocation, the healing of the 
rick, and became in time a perfect Charlatan. 

He purchased the Hotel Bullion in the 
place De La Hose and there ran riot with 
bis clientage. He magnetized a tree at the 
3nd of the Rue de Bondy while in the 
zenith of his power, and the sick by thou- 
sands by their own request, were tied to it 
in the hope of cure. He evidently overdid 
it all, and later on when he requested the 
Academy to investigate his experiment, they 
lisclaimed themselves unable to agree, and 
bhe Royal Society of Medicine in emphatic 
terms denounced him, and in 1784, the 
government interfered, two commissions 
were appointed, one from the members of 
the faculty, the other from the members of 
the Royal Society of Medicine. The reports 



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of these commissions read like discussions 
upon some subject of which they were 
totally ignorant. Courmelles, in his work 
on Hypnotism, writes of the deliberations of 
these commissions. 

"They sought for the fluid not by the 
study of the cures effected, but in the phases 
of mesmeric sleep. These were considered 
indispensable and easily regulated by the 
experimentalist. When submitted to close 
investigation, however, it was found that 
they could only be induced when the 
subjects knew they were being magnetized, 
and they differed according as they con- 
ducted in public or in private. In short, 
the imagination was considered the sole 
active agent." 

Whereon DeElson remarked, "If imag- 
ination is the best cure, why should we not 
use the imagination as a curative means?" 
Did he who had so vaunted the existence of 
the fluid, mean by this to destroy its exist- 
ence, or was it not rather a satirical wav of 
saying, "You choose to call it imagination, 
be it so, but after all as it cures, let us 
make use of it." This second hypothesis 
seems the true one. The two commissions 
came to the conclusion that the phenomena 
were due to imitation, imagination and con- 



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tact, and that they were dangerous, and 
consequently should be prohibited. But one 
of the commissions could see the true force 
of magnetic influence. This was in 1784. 

In 1813, the great naturalist, Deluze, 
wrote exhaustively upon the subject, and 
from that time on magnetism or mesmerism, 
or more properly speaking, Hypnotism, has 
been thoroughly investigated and is now 
accepted. 

About 1814, Baron Du Polet, invented 
his magic mirror. It was indeed a magic 
mirror, for it was but a black circle drawn 
upon the floor with charcoal* at which his 
patients were made to gaze with fixed at- 
tention until in a receptive state, then by 
suggestion upon his part they were led to 
the "Denomical Exhibition." As in the 
case of Mesmer and his followers, it will be 
seen that all these methods of different 
operators were used simply for the purpose 
of attracting attention of the subject from 
themselves and thus bringing their soul "En 
rapport" with that of the manipulator. 

In 1841, Braid, a Physician of Man- 
chester, England, made a series of invest- 
igations prompted by the "Experiments 
Magnetic," of the French Magnetizer, La- 
Fontaine. 



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At this time the honest scientific study 
of Hypnotism really begins. Braid became 
thoroughly acquainted with cataleptic phe- 
nomena and with suggestions, and used 
Hypnotism honestly and therapeutically. 
He used it to perform painless surgical 
operations, as did many others, yet in spite 
of all their many wonderful works and 
deeds, Hypnotism found no general accep- 
tion, until about the year 1880, when a great 
Medical school of France, that of Nancy, 
took up the study in a scientific manner, 
and to quote Albert Moll, "the interest then 
became general," Prof. Burnheim, of Nancy, 
who incited by Dumnet, had studied the 
question with Quibeault and had accepted 
the latest views, published a book, "DE La 
Suggestion" in 1884, He gave in it ex- 
amples of curative effects of Hypnotism, 
the phenomena of which he says are of a 
purely physical nature. Besides this in 
Nancy, Beaunis worked at the Physiology of 
Hypnotism, and Quiegevis at the forensic 
side of the question. Then followed in 
France, the contest between the schools of 
Charcot and Nancy, in which the latter has 
gained ground more and more, even in Paris. 

People began to busy themselves with 
Hypnotism in other countries as well as 



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France, chiefly on the lines of the school of 
Nancy. 

It is true that, as has already been 
mentioned, the study of Hypnotism had 
been begun in various countries in connec- 
tion with the work of Charcot. As, how- 
ever, in consequence of the rather one-sided 
standpoint of these investigations, the dif- 
ferent inquiries failed to find any lasting 
satisfaction. Even the name of Charcot 
failed to give a general extension to the 
study of Hypnotism. Only when the school 
of Nancy created a surer basis for Hyp- 
notism by a more profound psychological 
conception could people elsewhere, begin to 
devote themselves on a larger scale to the 
study of it. 

In France, itself, the importance of the 
Nancy investigation was more and more 
recognized, and even those who had at first 
considered the experiments of Charcot to be 
of higher value, turned in large numbers to 
the school of Nancy. 

Hypnotism found an entrance to other 
countries, Northern Europe and Belgium, 
where for the first time we have record of 
the legal profession making a study of it. 
Several lawyers like Boujean and Mailer, 
interested themselves in the new science, 



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especially in its forensic aspects. The med- 
ical profession throughout the world accept- 
ed it as a most valuable adjunct in the 
treatment of diseases, until today it is rec- 
ognized as such, and the chair of psychology 
and hypnotic therapeutics is a firmly 
established fixture in our medical schools. 
Many valuable works of the subject are in 
print; there are no longer any secrets con- 
nected with it. The whole student world 
may know. No doubt, or suspicions connected 
with it. Like all great professions it had 
to fight its way from generation to gener- 
ation of doubters and unbelievers, to lose 
or win; it has won; it is ours to command. 

The Medical Profession have been the 
first to take advantage of and use this power, 
but here and there we hear of those follow- 
ing other professions, who have investigated 
and made study of it, and by keeping their 
knowledge secret, have climbed to wealth 
and power by use of it, and here let me say 
that the great secret of success through 
Hypnotic control, particularly outside the 
Medical profession, is in keeping from the 
world the fact that one ever even heard of 
it, you are obliged to manipulate your sub- 
jects differently than the Doctor of Medicine. 
Your methods, as you will be taught in the 



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following pages, will be different, known 
more to yourself than to the world. You 
will be taught to send your soul to them 
without the verbal message, and draw their 
soul to you without a word from them, 
taught as one great author upon Hypnotism 
writes, "To think into them." Aided in 
many instances by verbal suggestions, but 
not at all times. The eye and well timed 
gesture, the calm but firm expressions of the 
features all act and take up their part in 
inducing hypnosis, but never for a moment 
forget that it is implicit confidence in and 
mastery of self that sends out or draws to, 
the soul. This is the great secret of control, 
mastery of self. 

I will repeat this through this work, 
not to tire but to impress, and when once 
you have learned this great lesson and 
possess this confidence, and are self impress- 
ed and self possessed, you have "Climbed 
the Heights;" the rest will be easily gained. 
Mastery over self is mastery of the soul. 
This self mastery and this implicit confi- 
dence in self, and this self possession will 
elevate you, will place you upon a higher 
plane, will brighten your life, will give you 
the long sought, longed for power, and dem- 



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onstrate the mighty force of the God life, the 
spirit, the peuma or soul; it will lead you to 
peace. "The strain off." 

The following clipping is apropos, a 
beautiful poem lesson in Auto Suggestion: 

HAPPINESS, FAITH. 
"Talk HAPPINESS, the world is sad enough 
Without your woes. No path is wholly 
rough; 
Look for the places that are smooth and 
clear, 
And speak of those to rest the weary 
ear 
Of earth so hurt by one continuous strain 
Of human discontent, and grief, and 
pain. 
"Talk FAITH; the world is better off with- 
out 
Your uttered ignorance and morbid 
doubt. 
If you have faith in God, or man, or self, 
Say so; if not, push back upon the 
shelf 
Of silence all your thoughts 'till faith shall 
come; 
No one will grieve because your lips 
are dumb. 



PSYCHOLOGY 

oi 
HYPNOTISM. 



PSYCHOLOGY OF HYPNOTISM. 

Hypnotism, what is it? It is the all - 
pervading soul power, that grand part of the 
infinite God within us, co-partners in body, 
and spirit with that mighty force, which 
threw the Universe into being and which 
holds in space the worlds. It is our own 
soul. The infinite wonder of the ages gave 
it to us, to use in this grand co-partnership. 
We may drift along, as do the masses, to 
that inevitable moment when we must give 
it back without a knowledge of its use. 

Header, if you will but peruse the con- 
tents of this volume, act upon the advice 
given herein, the whole world is your gar- 
den; till it; work it, and the beauties of the 
world will manifest themselves to you as 
never before. Brightness from clouds, love 
from hate, happiness from despair, power 
from weakness, it is ours for the time, and 
you in time will believe, as do those, who 
have made study of this mystic wonder, that 
there is but little of the occult or mysterious 
about it, that it is but the manifestation of 
brilliant endowment or magnificent mastery 
of the soul life, handed you for your own 
behoof by the beneficent hands of the ever 
living God. 

You will have pass before you innum- 
erable and incredible manifestations of 



wonder, then the light. I have seen this, 
have felt, have known of it. Until now 
that the light is thrown on, I no longer 
doubt but that the soul does become dis- 
associated from the physical being, and is 
placed "en rapport" with the infinite of 
which it is a part. 

The incantations of soothsayers of the 
ancients with their invocations and orac- 
ular utterances, scoffed at as they have been 
for ages, by the masses, ignorant of the cause 
of these mysterious performances, are to the 
student of today but symbols of the wonder- 
ful light, which made bright those days we 
are so prone to number among the dark 
ages. 

The light, airy and beautiful story of 
Oriental life embodied in the history of the 
Prince of India, "The light of Asia." Budda; 
from birth to Nirvana, is one long, lovely 
recital of the mystic works of those by 
whom he was taught the miraculous doings of 
their pupil, who, if the story be half true, 
became master of them all; to him the 
mysteries were unveiled, the soul a power 
to wield that he might control the world, 
but first himself. This, dear reader, is the 
foundation upon which to build. Control 
thyself. 



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All through the dim history of the past, 
uncertain as much of it may be, there are 
many indubitable proofs of mind and soul 
culture, which point to the fact that there 
were many, who were past masters in the use 
of Animal Magnetism, or more properly, 
Soul Transference through Hypnotism. 

Our Savior, from His birth to the 
close of His eventful career, gave evidence 
of the possession of that power over self, 
which gave to Him the mastery, that mas- 
tery of self, of flesh, and even His majesty, 
the Prince Royal of Sheol, that mastery only 
possible through absolute self control, and 
only to be acquired through suggestion or 
self Hypnotism, and as did he control him- 
self, so did he mould by that same power, 
those about him; so did he command those 
who followed him, and through that power 
did he mould the destiny of the world. 

From the miraculous suggestion and 
wondrous works of Christ, have come the 
mighty light of civilization. From Judea 
and the Cross, athwart the deep, in all re- 
ceptive lands, has this great mastery made 
itself manifest; mastery of mind over matter; 
man lord of himself lord over all. 

"From Africa's sunny fountains, 

From India's coral strand' ' 



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have been handed down to us, the mighty 
evidences of this mystic entrancing art, but 
the idolatry and dark superstitions of the 
earlier past were outdone and overshadowed 
by the wondrous works of Him, who hyp- 
notized the sea; of Him, who gained the 
mastery, and gave it to the world as freely 
as He gave his blood when He openly taught, 
that He who mastered self, mastered all. 

The history of the church is but one 
long story of Hypnotic control. 

The history of medicine is but one long 
story of Hypnotic control, or mystie man- 
ifestation, coupled with more and more a 
perfect understanding of the use of "herbs 
and simples," but never losing sight of that 
great controlling force which draws the soul 
out that the body heals. What meant 
Shakespeare as he prompts Othello to 
exclaim? 

"Not poppy nor mandragora, 
Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, 
Shall medicine thee to that sweet sleep 
Which thou own'st yesterday. " 
The history of politics is but one long 
story of diplomatic well timed Hypnotic 
control. I have seen and heard Blaine, the 
Magnetic; have seen and heard Roscoe 
Conkling, the majestic, hold spellbound a 



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multitude in a vast magnetic seance, and in 
Wm. Jennings Bryan, we have today, one 
of the greatest living examples of personal 
Magnetic, Hypnotic, controlling power the 
world has ever known. (An honest con- 
fession from a republican, but a tribute of 
regard.) Political policy, political creeds, 
political platforms could all be swept to sea, 
could a man like that come in personal con- 
tact with all the people. Views, ideas, 
reasoning, all melt and vanish under the 
spell brought about through personal con- 
tact with such a man as he. 

In Utica, N. Y., a few years ago, I 
listened attentively to the trial of a man 
prosecuted in the XL S. Court, the jury, the 
audience knew it but Howe, that great 
criminal lawyer of New York City, was his 
Counsel. He began his plea; he wrought 
upon one after another of that jury. He 
carefully and insidiously, with impressive 
voice and gesture, so manipulated and 
moulded them, that one by one, they were 
brought into a receptive state; then cau- 
tiously as the reptile charms the little bird, 
he wound around them the mystic spell of 
his impressive power. The judge, the stern 
judge, was moved. The gaping, listening 
crowd were moved. The jury, yes, they 



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were moved. They retired; soon they re- 
turned, and, in the quietude of that vast 
chamber of justice, the half paralyzed, trem- 
ulous voice of the foreman spoke the words 
that set free a criminal: "Not Guilty." 
This was but one of the long list of tri- 
umphant victories for him. His knowledge 
and application of Mesmeric or Hypnotic 
power over his fellows made him famous. 
His fame rendered him wealthy. 

After long study and much observation 
and investigation of this wonderful force of 
power, I am constrained to believe that there 
is behind it some degree of physical strength, 
not in the results themselves, but in the 
fortifying of the psychological state, the 
backing up, as it were, of strong mind by 
wholesome nerve state, due in a great measure 
to perfect physiological condition. Of this 
I am certain, the operator, when in the 
most perfect physical state, when thoroughly 
rested, does most perfect work. I give this 
much credit then to the physical, while 
without doubt, the manifestations are 
brought through psychological or true soul 
force. 

The physical has much to do in the 
matter, if in no other than in a supplement- 
ary way. The more perfect one's con- 



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fidence in one's self and in one's methods, as 
an Operator, the more confidence will the 
subject place in the Operator. Every 
motion, every utterance will display self- 
control and self-confidence, which is nec- 
essary to the mental equipment of a success- 
ful Operator, and the more perfect the 
physical, the more control of the mental; 
then, while physical phenomena are, un- 
doubtedly, due to immediate mental force, 
bodily strength, or physical force is second- 
arily a factor in bringing about these results. 

That this Will o' the Wisp, this 
vaporish something, soul or spirit, transpires, 
passes out under the calm and perfect quiet 
of the dream-sleep of the Hypnotic state, no 
longer admits of a doubt. The prophets be- 
lieved it; the sibyls of that magnificent city 
upon her seven hills, knew of it and exer- 
cised it. The Christ taught it, and gave 
the most wonderful demonstrations of it. 
Ceilsus writes of it, and Asclepiades prac- 
ticed it. This soul does go out wrapped in 
mystery, and clothed in magic, yet it goes 
out, goes out to the infinity who gave it, 
goes out to commune with the soul life of ] 
others, who are in affinity. 

Mesmer, Bimheim and others, who 



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taught it, have been laughed at, and scoffed 
at. 

Shakespeare was inspired by this psysic 
power, and an analysis of his wonderful 
writings gives certain proof that he knew it 
all, had felt it all, and his mighty reputation 
is due to the very fact, that he did know. 
No man could write as he did that did not. 

For years I have endeavored to analyze 
this power, to determine if I could, what the 
Hypnotic force is, and what receptive part 
of a Iseing is acted upon. 

Since 1874, I have made this subject a 
persistent study. During the winter of '74 
and '75, I was a pupil of Prof. Reynolds in 
his nomadic (if I may use the term) School 
of Mesmerism. He was a master in his art, 
and a master as an instructor, as a large 
number of my associates of that time well 
remember. His teaching at that time was 
somewhat similar with that of today, and 
brought the answer equally as well. I re- 
member he claimed it was nerve force and 
vitality from the operator passing up along 
the Radial nerve of the subject, thus over- 
coming them. I believed him. He taught 
us that the Radial nerve was the most 
e nsitive of all, that it was more intimately 
associated with the mind than any other, 



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hence through that nerve the strength of the 
operator was passed into the subject. By- 
firm pressure upon the space between the 
knuckles of the index and second fingers by 
the thumbs of the operator, while holding 
the subject's hands, who, after having by a 
steady gaze at a coin, floated into a receptive 
state. Yes, the soul went out, out to Prof. 
Reynolds then, just as it does today to 
others; his practice perfect, his theory at 
fault. 

It is the soul life that is operated upon, 
it is the soul life that brings about the 
phenomenon of control, it is the soul, noth- 
ing but the soul. The grandest phenomena 
ever seen, are soul phenomena, the mightiest 
manifestations of human power through the 
cycle of the centuries. 

Nations have been built up to pomp 
and magnificence in a day by this soul 
power, or swept into oblivion with scarcely a 
history, by the magic wand of power of soul. 

You ask what this soul may be? I will 
tell you. It is a part of that all-powerful 
Begetter, who hurled through space, the 
worlds; who holds in the hollow of His hand, 
the fathomless, limitless, infinite Universe; 
the Pater, the Father of all, the Almighty 
God. It is a birthright from Deity, and 



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when done with it here, His everlasting love 
will again absorb it; take it back to Himself. 
Will personal consciousness go with it? I 
hope so. 

Our soul is the spirit of God handed to 
us — Hig noblest work. It is the power of 
God within us, that is manifest when mag- 
netic influence or Hpynotic phenomena are 
evolved; it is the force of the God life, the 
soul, not the force of the sexual life; not the 
life physical. Were that the case, during 
the dream- sleep or Hypnotic state, while 
absent from the body, death would ensue. 
This is not the case, the manifestations of the 
physical life go on, are not disturbed, con- 
sequently it is not life, neither is it the 
mind, for the mental state in all manner of 
ways is present during the Hypnotic spell, 
it is the soul, then, the God life, the spirit 
life, that controls, passing from one to an- 
other, from place to place; it is God in us, 
and we in Him; thus then are we physical, 
mental and spiritual, a perfect trinity, 
henceforth forever, and have been since the 
dawn first brightened human existence. 

It is the soul, then, with which we have 
to deal; it is the soul and its mysterious 
triumphs and powers, which, by control of 
the physical and mental being, bring about 



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the startling results of Hypnotic manifes- 
tations. It is not the physical or mental 
force that enables one to outride the storms 
and tribulations of this life; it is the in- 
spiring confidence given by the soul, this 
God life, and it is this confidence which one 
must gain. 

Little by little it will come until the 
soul strength and power be manifest; then 
will be the victory, the victory over self, 
greatest and most fruitful of all. 

I am not writing this that you learn 
this Mystic Art; that you may control others 
alone; I will go further and teach you self- 
control, the richest pearl of all. 

All who have carefully perused the 
foregoing will naturally inquire why it is 
then that Hypnotism may be, can be, and is 
used through criminal suggestion for wicked 
and perverse ends. 

I will tell you. It is all plain. As 
the tree is bent and blighted by improper 
and unnatural surroundings when it might 
have grown to perfection, so the soul is 
blighted and dwarfed by the mind for the 
time controlling it; as the pure, sweet, in- 
nocent, little child through improper sur- 
roundings and associations, too, often be- 
comes a moral pervert, so does this soul life 



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become perverted through control of a 
vicious and wicked mind, and thus becomes 
for the time, an instrument in wrong doing. 

As the mind is, so through association 
does this soul life become almost dormant in 
many; in others, the dominant spirit for good 
or evil. 

It is the soul then, that carries the mes- 
sage prompted by the controlling mind. 
There is nothing in the wonderful manifes- 
tations of clairvoyance, the cataleptic state or 
the Hypno-somnambulistic phase, but the 
workings of the lightning winged soul. 

The mystic- phenomena of telepathy are 
soul phenomena, spirit affinity, nothing 
more, nothing less; the soul life, the all- 
powerful spirit of the God who gave it, is 
the force of Hypnotism, the power behind 
it all. 

Confidence and perfect faith in one's self 
can only be begotten by impressions firmly 
fixed through associations from time to time 
by control of others, and by that greatest of 
all powers given to the human being, control 
of self. Thus has the infinite God left to ub 
our destiny. Will we allow the world to 
mould it, perhaps to ruin, to give back that 
soul dwarfed, blighted or unsightly, or will 
we by the God given powers within us, 



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mould it into a true, perfect, happy one, in 
harmony with that of the Great Giver of all. 
Then, when it does return, may conscious- 
ness go with it. 

In this is found, I believe, a scientific 
demonstration of immortality. This soul 
unentangled from the physical self, floats off 
and out, up and back to Him who gave it, 
and if we have failed to use it, if we have 
allowed it to lie dormant, certainly we have 
not developed it. It was given to us to 
make use of. 



HYPNOTIC 



INDUCTION. 



HYPNOTIC INDUCTION. 

In the following pages I will endeavor 
to carry you along from one method to an- 
other of producing this wonderful soul 
power, which, prompted by the mind and 
suggestion in many forms, is truly the 

"LEVER THAT MOVES THE WORLD," 
and gradually confidence and faith will dawn 
upon you and with them will come the 
power; as one learns to read, letter by letter 
and word by word, so this grand science 
will be taught you, so must you learn it by 
first learning the induction of Hypnotism, 
as does the stage Hypnotist manipulate his 
subjects. 

His exhibitions are to cater to the 
pleasure loving public only, but the grand 
faith, the implicit confidence, which leads to 
greater works, more silent works perchance, 
which will give you the soul control sought, 
can only come through learning just what he 
has learned, but not necessarily put to the 
same use. 

It is the induction of true Hypnotic 
state in others by these methods, that places 
the faith and confidence in one sufficient to 
later on induce the same state unknown to 
the subject. Many read and study upon 
this science until thoroughly conversant with 



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it, until perfect confidence does come to 
them before making any attempt to exert 
it; influence over others may never go 
further than a perusal of works upon the 
subject; confidence is induced, they believe, 
without other or more extended investiga- 
tion, and are better and stronger because of 
it, but they have not learned all. You may. 

I would advise that you select from 
your acquaintances or from among strangers, 
when the opportunity presents itself, those 
who will allow you to place them "under 
the spell" to practice upon them, as it were; 
there will no harm come to them or to you 
if your motives are honest and sincere. 

The restful state induced brings calm 
and perfect quietude, and the rule is, that 
during Hypnotic sleep, excess of nervous 
energy is stored up, and the whole physical 
and mental state is in consequence built up 
and strengthened, placed upon a normal 
plane and into conditions favorable to the 
true establishment of functional harmony. 

Thus the soul is freed through Hyp- 
notism and spontaneously asserts itself. It 
has been a recognized fact for many years 
that a human being can be thrown into an 
artificial sleep during which he sustains such 
a relation to the operator, who has induced 



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it, that Lie is sensitive only to what the 
operator tells him he is sensitive, and is 
wholly subject, as far as his mental opera- 
tions and physical actions are concerned, to 
the volition of the Hypnotist. 

A Hypnotized person sees, hears, tastes, 
smells and feels what the operator says that 
he sees, hears, tastes, smells and feels, and 
nothing else. 

For the time being his soul is sur- 
rendered to the person who has Hypnotized 
him. As a rule he gives no heed to the 
voice or commands of others. 

His condition is one of passive obedi- 
ence, the primary or objective mind being 
entirely in abeyance, and the soul, the sub- 
limal self, for the time controls. This is 
simply the state of perfect calm. All strain 
off. 

His ears have become avenues of sug- 
gestion, and thought impressed by emphatic 
declaration upon the sublimal self, mould 
and irrevocably influence the mind and 
character of the individual. Directions giv- 
en are carried out in the minutest detail 
and suggestions at variance with the sub- 
jects; dominant ideas are readily accepted 
without being given even the benefit of a 



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doubt, and are fulfilled previous to and 
after waking. 

Hypnotic influence in some of its many 
forms is a most potent instrumentality in 
moulding mind and character, and that it is 
superior to the conventional methods of in- 
struction, is perhaps, an assertion startling, 
yet true. 

Quackenbos writes: — "The moralist 
and preacher address the self that is not in 
control. The flesh entangled, hesitating, 
easily tempted and entrapped objective self, 
hence their appeals are so often futile. The 
suggestionist invokes the better, sublimal 
self (the soul) invests it with control and 
seldom fails to effect the desired purpose. 
Discriminating Hypnotic suggestion is thus 
a more powerful agent than objective relig- 
ious exhortation for the moral reformation of 
the young and thoughtless. 

Human beings are Hypnotizable by 
other human beings, between whom and 
themselves exists a peculiar sympathy or 
harmonious relationship known as Rapport. 

I have reached the conclusion that 
every person of ordinary intellectual ca- 
pacity can Hypnotize some other person, — 
and that the great mass of men are Hyp- 
notizable. Various methods of inducing 



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Hypnosis are practiced, all having in view 
the fixation of the attention upon some mo- 
notonous stimulus of the eye or ear, as seda- 
tive music, or a bright object like the 
nickel plated point protector of a lead pencil, 
a transparent crystal, a sparkling diamond, a 
stud in the shirt front or the eyes of the 
operator." 

Perfumes also have Hypnotic power. 
The odor of May blossoms, of new mown 
hay, of balm of Gilead firs unquestionably 
contribute to the induction of mental placid - 
ness and so to mental surrender. 

An idiot is soul bound. He could not 
be Hypnotized neither could he Hypnotize. 

"In certain instances the fixation of at- 
tention may be profitably supplemented by 
light passes or by holding firmly the hand of 
the subject. 

While the whole force 
Of one's personality (soul) 
Is concentrated in an effort 
To overcome any automatic 
Resistance to Hypnotization. 

In inducing Hypnosis with your subject, 
you should carefully secure his confidence 
by sympathetic and assuring assertions and 
calm, quiet demeanor, taking your time. 



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Let nothing come to antagonize him; let 
every act be cool, deliberate and kind. 

Place him upon a chair or upon a sofa 
and taking one hand in your own, while with 
your other hand you hold some object, pre- 
ferably a bright one, within a few inches of 
his eyes and with assuring assertions of 
kindness, make him feel comfortable and 
restful, and ask him to gaze fixedly upon the 
object held by you and to forget all else. 

Fix your gaze upon him and look him 
steadily in the eye, while his gaze becomes 
fixed upon the object held before him. 
Kindly and assuringly command him to keep 
his gaze steadily fixed, while you, in the 
meantime, have with the concentrated force 
of your whole soul drawn from him his own, 
then bid him rest. 

Say to him a You are quiet now, there is 
no strain on you. Your eyes are heavy." 
Draw down the object until it is in line 
with your eyes. 

Continue this steady fixed gaze, your 
eyes now taking the place of the object, his 
eyelids will begin to drop, to become trem- 
ulous. 

You quietly place your hands on his 
head, quietly pass them down to his 



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shoulders, then down his arms and off at \ 
the ends of his fingers. 

Make these kindly, gentle passes a few 
times and with modulated voice, command 
him to close his eyes, touch his eyelids 
tenderly and say to him, "You are now 
going into a calm, sweet sleep, sweet as the 
sleep of your childhood. You are going, 
going, sweeter, yes sweeter, you are going, 
going sound, sound asleep; you are sound 
asleep. You cannot open your eyes; you do ( 
not wish to; but you cannot, now you wish 
to but you cannot, you are fast, fast, 
asleep." 

You have told that subject the truth. 
Fast asleep to all the world but you; they 
can hear no other voice but your voice, they 
know no other sound, their soul has left its 
earthly tenement and in Rapport with that 
of yours, is yours to mold. Hypnotism, the 
lever that moves the world. 

When you desire you may awaken him 
by the upward passes and concentration of 
your desire. If not, say to him: 

"You have slept long enough, you had 
best waken. I will count three and when I 
say three, I will slap my hands, you will be 
wide awake in an instant. Ready now, One, 



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Two, Three. Wide awake. You have 
rested, havn't you?" 

Indeed it is a rest, a fruitful rest. 

No such calm, placid tranquillity has 
ever blessed the human mind or body since 
that loving fruitful mother hypnotized him 
while at her throbbing breast, with gentle 
soothing passes and the low, sweet lullaby, 
as comes from the "Passive obedience" of 
soul to soul, during the hypnotic sleep. 
But he is your subject during life, yours to 
mould, to control. 

A new destiny has been placed in your 
hands, the responsibility is an awful one 
should you forget. 

The possibilities in your power are 
enormously wonderful, you have brought to 
yourself a new and submissive soul. You 
stand in closer relationship to the Sublimer 
Self of this being than ever did the parent, 
the Tutor or the Priest. 

No marriage vow ever bound as this 
soul is bound to you. 

Be careful, it is the great secret of 
social, political, professional and financial 
successes. Through this power, fame and 
riches are won. "It is the ladder by which 
the heights are gained." 






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In the first step I will give you the 
different methods of many of the most noted 
hypnotic operators of the day, as written by 
themselves. You will note as you follow 
them that the calm receptive state is in- 
variably induced by concentrated fixation of 
thought, of something outside of self, that 
for the time self is forgotten, is blotted out, 
that there is no cognizance of physical, 
mental, personal self, that the fetters are all 
unloosed. u The strain off," the soul set free, 
having in mind that all these "Masters of 
men" have started their investigation as you 
begin yours. 

Until that confidence and mastery of 
self has been attained, that in many in- 
stances the many are brought under the spell 
by the spontaneous exercise of impress- 
iveness through personal soul power alone. 
That they even "Think it into them," which 
attracted by the personality of the operator 
through gesture, oratory and well timed 
suggestion bearing in mind at all times that | 
any method which will in each individual ) 
case induce forgetfulness of self through { 
fixation of gaze or thought upon the operator 
will bring about the desired receptivity 
upon the part of the subject, whether it be 
the dulcet harmonious sound of music strik- 



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ing the chord in them, which sets free 
their soul, or a balmy odor, or the bauble 
held up to them, or the powerful impress- 
iveness and so called magnetic force given 
one who has made earnest study of this 
weird science. 

Weird and mystical to the masses. 
All simplicity to you. A magnificent herit- 
age left you for the grasping, or floating 
down, away, away forever, should you sit 
hesitatingly and not even note its passing; 
grasp it. Hold fast to it, or you may be the 
subject. 

Your soul handed over to that of one, 
who took advantage of the golden op- 
portunity and did grasp it, and did hold on 
and did grow. Yes, grow, grow strong, 
while you, perchance, remain weak. 

Much of this is written that you become 
so thoroughly impressed with confidence 
that you will grasp, and firmly. 

Study when opportunity presents the 
methods of stage Hypnotists. They are none 
the less adepts in the "Black Art," so called, 
than you would be, or I. Their operations 
are open to the world, for gain. They edify 
and amuse; they do no harm, place the spell 
in many ways upon their subjects, and from 
their ranks have been recruited some of the 



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most successful and kindly and beneficent 
members of that grand profession, who to- 
day heal the sick and smooth the pathway 
of many a soul bound neurotic, that we, 
members of the Medical Profession, fail to 
relieve with all our presumed or acquired 
acumen. 

They must not be classed among the i 
fanatics, who call themselves Magnetic^ 
healers, Divine healers, Christian Scientists 
and the like. 

There is nothing but Hypnotic mani- i- 
festation in their grand work. Many noble -| 
men, members of the Medical Profession have ' 
taken up the study of medical psychology rj 
and have calmly submitted to the taunts * 
and jeers of their professional or unprofes- 
sional brethren until they have soared far ?! 
above calumny and reproach, and are rec- T 
ognized and consulted by the most noted I 
medical men the world possesses. Their I 
knowledge of Hypnotism, paving the way j 
to honor and riches. 

I will give you below the methods of | 
different masters in the art, the methods 
used by stage Hypnotists, I quote first 
from (Prof. J. MacDonald,} the noted Hyp- 
notist, astrologer and writer: 



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" The operator, after making his subject 
i perfectly comfortable, either sits or stands 
| opposite to them, and should place his han s 
; extended over the head and make passes 
j slowly down to the extremities as near the 
j face and body as possible without touching 
| the subject; at the end of each pass the hand 
j is closed until it is returned to the head, 
!l when the same thing is repeated as before. 

After making several passes, point the 
\ fingers close to the eyes of the subject. 
This sometimes has more effect than the 
| passes. This process should be continued 
I for several minutes at the first trial. The 
I effect will depend upon the susceptibility of 
! the subject* 

Should no signs of sleep be procured, 
the operator should persevere with passes 
until the eyes close, and should the quiver- 
ing of the eyelids be observed, you can be 
quite sure your efforts will be successful. 
Very susceptible persons will in the course 
of five to ten minutes, sometimes fallback 
insensible. You may not be positive about 
the insensibility being real Hypnotic coma. 
You test for this as follows: — 

Raise the subject's hand and if it falls 
back immediately as a dead weight, it is a 
good sign. Raise one of the eyelids and if 



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you find the eye ball turned upwards and is 
wandering in its orbit, there is little doubt 
of your having produced true Hypnotic 
coma. 

Sometimes the eye ball is in a natural 
position, but the pupil is widely dilated and 
does not contract when a lighted candle is j 
brought near it; sometimes breathing or. 
placing the hands on the forehead will deep- 
en the sleep, but operators are warned not to 
produce too much brain hypnosis. 

ANOTHER STAGE METHOD. 

"Volunteers are called for and seated in 
a semi-circle around the Hypnotist, when he 
orders them to place the right hand, palm ; 
down, upon the right knee cap, the left i 
hand, palm down, upon the left knee cap; 
commands them to asssume as easy a posi- ; 
tion as possible, allowing each muscle of the ! 
body to relax; slightly incline the head back- 
ward; command them to close their eyes 
and look at an imaginary spot exactly in the 
center of the forehead, with both eyes closed 
continuously. Command them to hold their 
eyes absolutely in this position and not let 
the eyeballs fall to their normal position. 
Tell them it will be but a few seconds until : 
they are fast asleep, and the desire for sleep 
will take possession of their whole body. 



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Absolute quiet and ease of position must be 
maintained. After allowing them to sit in 
this position one or two minutes, test them 
to secure sensitive ones for experimenting 
upon. 

Place your left hand on their right, 
palm down, and with your right make a few 
passes from the center of their forehead 
down over the eyes, telling them to remain 
perfectly passive. After making these pass- 
es for a minute or more, place your right 
fingers lightly upon the top of the head with 
the fingers slightly parted; press with the 
thumb about one inch above the subject's 
eyes exactly between them, allowing the 
left hand in the meantime to rest upon the 
right of the subject. 

Tell your subject that his eyes are now 
stuck fast and that it will be impossible for 
him to open them. 

If he should succeed in opening them, 
try him once more; if he is still refractory 
leave him and go to next subject and go 
through the same process with each of them. 

Should his eyes stick and he be unable 
to open them, snap your fingers near his ear, 
and say "Now you can open them." Com- 
mand him to close them again and say 
"Sleep, sleep," two or three times, now leave 



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him and do the same with each of your 
subjects. No matter how hard a subject is 
to influence, if you persist and he does not 
resist, you will succeed at last. 

It may take ten or twenty minutes with 
new subjects, but after you get them once 
you wilL usually have no trouble. The 
first thing to do is to hold the eyes shut 
and you need not try any other experiment 
until you succeed in this. You should go 
about it in a confidential manner, always 
giving commands in a firm and low tone of 
voice. 

Subjects have been put into a hypnotic 
sleep, and the operator could not awaken 
them. The subject is either under the 
operator's control or not. If he is under the 
operator's control, any command to awaken 
him will do it if given by the operator; on 
the other hand, the following will answer: — 
Ask the subject what you must do to awaken 
him; if he should say, Let me sleep one, two, 
three hours. "All right, at exactly the time 
specified you will awaken," you will say." 

The instructions are to follow out the 
instructions of the subject as he gives it to 
you. It is generally considered, however, 
by Hypnotists that a subject will awaken of 
his own accord. Let it be particularly re- 



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membered that FAITH and concentration 
of thought upon your part are positively 
needful to accomplish your ends. 

It is implicit confidence in, and mastery 
of self, that sends out or draws to the soul. 
This is the great secret of control, Mastery 
of Self. 

The following is one of the methods of 
Prof. J. A. Harridan, the noted author on 
Hypnotism and a gentleman, who has made 
a most earnest study of it on and off the 
stage, and is recognized as a most powerful 
operator and a wonderfully successful 
healer: " Having secured your subject, place 
him in a chair in a comfortable position with 
his back to the light. Before you commence 
to operate, however, it will be well to ob- 
serve certain conditions. First, do not let 
the other persons in the room laugh or con- 
verse while you are operating. 

Disturbing noises at the first ex- 
periment will have a tendency to prevent 
hypnosis. They distract the attention and 
thus interfere with the mental state nec- 
essary for hypnosis. Later, when the sub- 
ject has learned to concentrate his thoughts, 
noises are less disturbing. The most abso- 
lute avoidance of any mistrust by those 
present is necessary as the least word or 



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gesture, may thwart the attempt to Hypno- 
tize. 

It will be best, if possible, to see those 
who are to be present, beforehand, or tell 
them before the subject arrives, that every 
word or action must be made with a view of 
impressing the subject with the idea that 
there is not the slightest doubt of your be- 
ing able to hypnotize him. 

Have perfect confidence in yourself, or, 
if you haven't absolute confidence, assume as 
much as you can. Don't allow yourself to 
become excited, as there is nothing, what- 
ever to get excited about. 

Don't be afraid that there will be any 
trouble in awakening your subject, as that 
is the easiest part of it, and there is absolute- 
ly no danger of being unable to bring your j 
subject out of this hypnotic condition. 

You are now fully warned and guided 
up to the point when you may enter upon 
the task of hypnotizing your subject. 

You should prepare his mind before- 
hand by telling him that you have a bright 
object for him to look at and that if he will 
gaze on it steadily a gentle drowsiness will 
soon steal over him, becoming heavier and 
heavier every moment until at last he can 



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not help but close his eyes and go right to 
sleep. 

You should also tell him that this sleep i 
will be entirely natural and in no way, 
whatever, either dangerous or unpleasant. J 
If he were to think different from this or 
expect to feel strangely, it would only 
agitate his mind and hinder the condition of 
passiveness, that is necessary to your pur- 
pose. If he is a friend who knows of it, you 
had better assure him that your experiment 
will be only of the briefest duration, and 
that you will not ask him to do anything 
ridiculous, or hurtful to his dignity. 

When you have thus made your subject 
feel easy in his mind, you should seat him 
in a comfortable manner and fix his hand 
with the bright object held in it about four 
inches in front of his eyes. The article may 
be a coin, a pocket knife, a metallic pencil 
case, a cork covered with tin foil, or, even 
something that has no glitter, whatever. 

Instruct your subject that he is to keep f 
looking right at it and not on any account J 
to turn his attention to other matters, (even 
if his dearest friend were to enter the room. 
You may speak to him thus: "Now, I want 
you to keep on looking at it, right at it, and 
soon your eyelids will get heavy, and then 



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heavier and heavier, then you will close 
your eyes in sleep. Keep looking at it. 
Keep looking, and pay no attention to any- 
thing but what I tell you. Do just as I ask 
you and nothing more." 

At this point proceed gently and do not 
hurry your subject. It will seem more 
natural if you give him time to get sleepy. 

He has only to listen; when his eyelids 
are really getting heavy, you can say: "Your 
eyes are closing, closing. Your eyes are al- 
most closed now," and „ draw out the words 
in a low tone as though you were very 
sleepy yourself. Then follow it up like 
this. "Your eyes must surely close. You 
cannot keep your eyes open: they are clos- 
ing fast: You are almost off; they will close 
now entirely and you will sleep. Close 
them." Then after a moment's pause, say: 
"Sleep;" speaking in a low but commanding 
voice. 

The eyes of your subject may quiver 
for a short time, but he will soon settle back 
in his chair ; perhaps with a sigh and exhibit 
every sign of sound repose. Let him rest 
thus for a minute or two, but if he is a new 
subject, keep on cautiously making sugges- 
tion like these: "You cannot awaken now. 



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Nothing will wake you and nothing will 
hurt you. 

"You may open your eyes but you will 
stay fast asleep. I am now about to raise 
your arm but you won't wake up. Nothing 
will wake you." Stroke down the raised 
arm and then say: — "Now you can't take it 
down. You are still fast asleep and you 
will do just what I tell you and nothing 
else, but you will not wake up. You can- 
not wake up until I give you the word to 
do so." 

Your control will now be evident from 
the arm continuing in the position to which 
you raised it, and if you tell the subject that 
no one else but yourself can take it down or 
bend it, a trial will show that such is really 
the case. 

This is a good way to establish full con- 
trol, or you can raise both arms in like 
position and cause the limbs to be rigidly 
outstretched. When you are disposed to 
release them, you may stroke the limbs gent- 
ly, but firmly in the opposite direction, saying: 
"I wish you to take them down now. See, 
you can do it easily. You can do all I tell 
you but nothing else. You will do so all 
the time. You can only awaken on my tel- 
ling you that I wish it." 



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Speak to your subject just as though 
he were awake and in full possession of his 
senses. 

Although fast asleep to every one else, 
he is keenly awake to you. He went to 
sleep with his mind absorbed with the idea 
that you alone could control him, and that is 
the reason that no one else can make any 
impression upon him. As you have been 
touching him and talking to him almost con- 
stantly, he has had no opportunity to fall 
asleep to you. 

This connection between the subject and 
operator is called "Rapport," which in Hyp- 
notism means, the state of sleep, in which 
the attention of the subject is fixed exclusive- 
ly upon the Hypnotist so that the latter is 
constantly present in memory." 
i-*—^ It is possible, however, to put your 
subject "en Rapport with any other person 
by simply suggesting that he is to obey the 
I requests and commands of that person until 
further notice. As I stated in a previous 
place, you can control your subject entirely 
by suggestions, which may be either a com- 
mand or request — either spoken or im- 
plied. It is important to note that while 
suggestions may be made verbally to the 
subject and usually are so made, it is by no 



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means essential that words should be used. 
All that is requisite is, that the subject 
should clearly understand what it is that is 
desired of him. The organs of sense and 
i perception are all channels for the con- 
veyance of any suggestion made to the 
] subject. As 1 have said before, Hyp- 
jnotism is a condition brought about by 
I suggestion, and the subject is controlled by 
j| speaking to him or making some motion or 
|| sign, the meaning of which, he will under- 
stand. In very many ways a look or a 
movement of the Hypnotist is able to con- 
vey a suggestion to his subject which will 
be quite as potent as if made by means of 
speech. 

After your subject has been under the 
influence a few minutes, it will be well to 
awaken him. Directions have already been 
given and more will follow for awakening 
the subject. 

Here are experiments by Albert Moll, 
which will further interest and instruct you 
and which will serve as I wish them to do, 
to give you further confidence in self and in 
the many different methods of inducing 
Hypnosis; you will continue to note that all 
methods have in view the fixation of 
thought through some medium until the 



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quiet, the rest, the receptive state is on. 
Self is forgotten; the physical and mental 
strain all off; the soul set free at the will of 
the operator. 

First experiment: — 

""I begin the experiments with this 
young man of twenty. I request him to 
seat himself on a chair and give him a but- 
ton to hold, telling him to look at it fixedly. 
After a few minutes his eyelids begin to 
fall, he tries in vain to open his eyes, which 
are fast closed. His hand, which, until now 
has grasped the button, drops upon his 
knees. I assure him that it is impossible 
for him to open his eyes. (He makes vain 
efforts to open them.) 1 now say to him, 
'Your hands are stuck fast to your knees, 
you cannot possibly raise them.' (He raises 
his hands, however.) I continue to converse 
with him. I find that he is imperfectly con- 
scious and I can discover no essential change 
in him, whatever. I raise one of his arms; 
directly, I let go, he drops it as he pleases, 
upon which I blow upon his eyes, which 
open at once and he is in the same state as 
before the experiment. The young man 
remembers all that I have said to him. 
The only striking thing is, therefore, that he 
could not open his tyes and that he feels a 



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certain degree of fatigue.' ' This young man 
was but partially placed under the hypnotic 
spell. Mr. Moll simply went thus far with 
him to demonstrate that but local manifes- 
tations come in answer to what we might 
call local hypnotic suggestions. He made no 
special effort to control any other part of 
the subject than the eyelids. This accounts 
for the slight sense of fatigue. Had he 
hypnotized him completely, all strain, all 
antagonism would have been off. Perfect 
submission would have followed, and with 
it, perfect physical and mental rest. The 
soul cannot be freed without it. 

Second experiment: — 

"This is a woman of fifty-three. When 
she has seated herself upon a chair I place 
myself before her; I raise my hands and 
move them downward, with the palms 
toward her, from the top of the head to 
about the pit of the stomach. I hold my 
hands so that they may not touch her, but 
close to her. As soon as my hands come 
to the lowest part of the stroke, I carry 
them in a wide sweep with outspread arms 
up over the subject's. 1 then repeat ex- 
actly the same movements, that is, passes 
from above, downward close to the body 
and continue this for about ten minutes. 



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At the end of this time the subject is sit- 
ting with closed eyes breathing deeply and 
peacefully. When I ask her to raise her 
arms, she raises them only slightly. When I 
ask her how she feels, she explains that she 
is tired. I now forbid her to open her eyes 
(she makes useless attempts to open them.) ] 
Now, I lift up her right arm; it remains in \ 
the air even after I have let go, I command ., 
her to drop her arm, (she drops it.) I lift it 
up again, and again it remains in the air; \ 
upon which I request her to drop her arm, 
declaring at the same time that she cannot 
do it. She now makes vain effort to drop \ 
her arm, but it remains in the air. The> 
same thing happens with the other arm, 
when I forbid her, she is unable to drop it; 
she cannot pronounce her own name, direct- 
ly I have assured her that she is dumb. (She 
only makes movements with her mouth 3 
without producing any sound.) I tell her 
that now she can speak. (She speaks at 
once.) I say to her, "You hear music."' 
The woman shakes her head to show that 
she hears no music. I wake her with passes 
from below, upwards, over the surface of the 
body, turning the back of the hand toward^ 
her. (She now opens her eyes and can con- 
trol all her movements.) We see here then; 



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that not only are the eyes closed during 
hypnosis, but that all sorts of different 
movements become impossible to the subject 
when I forbid them. 

Third experiment:— 

This is with a boy of sixteen, whom I 

have hypnotized several times. I request 

him to look me straight in the eyes. After 

j he has done this sometime, I take him by the 

hand and draw him along with me. Then I 

let go, but our eyes remain fixed on each 

other; then I lift up my right arm (the boy 

I does the same.) I raise my left arm (he does 

the same.) I make him understand by a 

gesture that he must kneel down (he does 

so.) He tries to rise but does not succeed so 

long as I look at him and fix him to the 

floor by a movement of the hand. Finally I 

cease to look at him; the charm is broken. 

We see here then, a young man, whose mov- 

! ements take the character of imitation and 

i whose eyes at the same time are wide open 

: and fixed upon mine. 

Fourth experiment: — 

Mr. X, forty one years old, seats himself 

| on a chair. I tell him he must try to sleep. 

I "Think of nothing but that you are to go 

to sleep." After some seconds I continue, 

| "Now your eyelids are beginning to close, 



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your eyes are growing more and more 
fatigued; your arms go to^ sleep; your legs 
grow tired; a feeling of heaviness and desire 
for sleep take possession of your whole body; 
your thoughts grow more and more confused. 
Now you can no longer resist; now your 
eyelids are closed." After the eyelids are 
closed I ask him if he can open them. (He 
tries to do so but they are too heavy.) I [ 
raise his left arm high in the air. (It re- 
mains in the air and cannot be brought down 
in spite of all his efforts.) I ask him if he 
is asleep. "Yes, fast asleep. Yes." "Do - 
you, hear the canary singing?" "Yes." 
"Now you hear the concert." "Certainly. I 
"Certainly." Upon this I take a black 
cloth and put it into his hand. "You can 
feel this dog quite plainly?" "Quite plain- 
ly." "Now you can open your eyes and you 
will see the dog clearly, then you will go to 
sleep again and will not awake until I tell 
you." (He opens his eyes, looks at the 
imaginary dog and strokes it.) I take the 
cloth out of his hand and lay it on the floor. 
(He stands up and reaches out for it,) 

Although he is in my room, when I tell 
him he is in the Zoological Garden, he 
believes it and sees trees and so on. In this 
case he is thrown into the hypnotic state by 



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my arousing in his mind an image of the 
sleep. 

This manner of hypnotizing is used by 
the school of Nancy investigators. The 
subject is completely without a will of his 
own. It is not only possible in this case to 
prevent the most various movements by a 
new prohibition, but I can also control his 
sense perception. On my assurance he 
hears a canary or hears music; he takes a 
black cloth for a dog and believes himself to 
be at the Zoo when he is in my room; but 
the following phenomenon is still more strik- 
ing: He hears all that I say to him, and 
allows himself to be influenced by me in 
every way, yet two other men who are pres- 
ent appear not to be observed by the hyp- 
notic at all. One of these persons lifts up 
the arm of the subject; the arm falls loosely 
down and when he desires the arm to remain 
in the air the subject takes no notice. He 
obeys my orders only, and is en rapport 
with me only. In order to wake him I now 
call to him: "Wake up." He wakes up at 
once but only remembers going to sleep. Of 
what has happened during the sleep he 
knows nothing about." 

The reader will begin to realize that 
there is even in the absence of living sub- 



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jects fact, truth and wonder; that all are to 
some extent moulded by it; that age or sex 
have little to do with it, and that there are 
almost as many methods as there are 
operators or subjects, and that the many 1 
different degrees of the hypnotic state, from j 
slightest to the deepest stage are all degrees i 
which enable the operator to greater or less - 
extent to control or hold his subject. 

These impressions are fraught with i 
great importance to you. For this reason I ': 
quote from others, that with this knowledge I 
and these further proofs before you, you be- 
come possessed with such confidence in, and 
mastery of self, that will send out, or draw 
to the soul, this confidence in self wins it, it ■ 
is this confidence in self that gives you con- 
trol and the mastery, and if you possess this 
confidence perfectly your method will be- 
come much simplified, and your power ex- i 
erted over those who never for a moment i 
realize in you their master. 

Through suggestion fervently and em- 
phatically given, men are moulded and 
fashioned to work your ends. When thor- 
oughly impressed it is then self suggestion, — 
auto-suggestion, whichj prompts them to do 
your will because they think it their own. 
Auto-suggestion accounts for many successes 



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in life that we (unless cognizant of its 
power) fail to give due credit. 

Auto-suggestion explains the mighty 
triumphs of Moody and Talmage and of 
Beecher. It explains the wonder working 
power of the personality and eloquence of 
Blaine, Calhoun, Conkling and Bryan, 
under the spell of whose magical, mag- 
netic presence, multitudes have been, 
and are so swayed, until without resolution, 
or even consciousness on their part, they 
have conformed through the operator of 
their soul-life, to the ideas and policies held 
up to them. 

Auto-suggestion is the cause of many a 
strange and never to be understood verdict 
of a jury, who all, or all but one or two, have 
been prompted by the impressing presence 
or fervent appeals of a master, in magic, if 
not in oratory. These men who have suc- 
ceeded in gaining the topmost heights of 
power and of fame, have succeeded because 
of their power to influence, to cause others 
through impressiveness of personality, of 
speech and of gesture, to think as they did 
or in other words, "they thought it into 
them." While in open mouthed wonder 
they sat or stood listening to the powerful 
oratorical utterance of their master; the em- 



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phatic or well-timed gestures, tlie fervent 
speech or the magnetic eye, were all passes, 
and other most potent causes leading to 
fixation of gaze and of thought, setting free 
the soul even at a distance; the strain was 
off, it was "soul sent into them;" while in the 
receptive state, they respond to the sugges- 
tions of the master, his aims are ac- 
complished, the world ignorant of the cause, 
wonders indeed. 

The great difference between the 
masters, is, that the masses do not know 
what the master does. Thus the many tak- 
en unawares become subservient to the few 
through this power of prompting, Auto-sug- 
gestion. 

This little story told me by an eminent 
jurist, who gave it to me as an illustration of 
the power of suggestion is very appropriate 
just here. And let me say that the gentle- 
man himself has gained wealth and dis- 
tinction through the power he possessed and 
acquired (as you are now acquiring it) of con- 
trolling first himself and then others. 

"The case was one which brought to the 
court a large number of witnesses, and a still 
larger number of friends of the principals of 
both sides. It was contested by attorneys 
from the county seat for clients, who both 



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lived at the county seat; all parties concern- 
ed were known to each other. The old 
court-house was filled, the witnesses were 
heard; the judge made his charge to the 
jury. The court adjourned, the wife of one 
attorney in the case, said to him while at 
dinner: — 

"I dropped into the court room and 
from what I heard of the case and from the 
charge of the judge to the jury, I am afraid 
my dear, you will lose your case." "Perhaps 
I will but come over and hear the case out. 
It is a most interesting one and I know will 
please you, but to tell you the truth, I expect 
to win that case." 

"What!" she said, "in the presence of all 
that evidence, and the charge of that judge 
to the jury ?" "Come and hear it out now 
that you are interested," said he. 

She did go. Her husband made his 
plea, he kept making it, she became so tired; 
still he plead. It seemed to her that the 
patience of judge, jury and populace were 
exhausted as was she. In time he rested his 
case. That jury went out and returned in a 
very few minutes with a verdict in favor of 
her husband's client. 

The first question she asked him upon 
his return home was, "Why in the world did 



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you plead so long and earnestly when you 
were so certain you would win that case?" 
"I will tell you, my dear. I had all but one 
man on that jury when I told you I expect- 
ed to win the case, I plead all that time 
to get him and I got him, didn't I ?" He 
talked it; he suggested it; he "thought it into 
him." This was an instance, as some call it, 
of lesser Hypnotism or personal magnetism, 
but he attracted the attention of the juror 
until he became in a receptive state. He 
led him little by little, by gesture and well 
timed oratorical utterances with his eyes 
firmly fixed upon him until their souls met 
"en rapport;" his plea ended just then. 

I have since met and made the acquain- 
tance of this attorney. He is a student of 
this "mystic art," an adept in Hypnotism, 
gaining wealth and fame. The world does 
not know why. He keeps that little secret to 
himself. "Go thou and do likewise." 

Now I am story telling, listen to an- 
other. Not very many years since there 
was a shut down of an Industrial Concern 
due to a large labor organization calling a 
strike. The men all stopped their work and 
went to their homes. The owners placed 
new men — non-union men, at work. Soon 
the sounds of dissatisfaction were heard. 



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Meetings were called. Some of the strikers 
threatened trouble. Deputies were sent for 
as usual under such circumstances, and the 
man who was to command these deputies re- 
paired to the scene of action, arriving there 
some hours before the train, which was to 
bring them. In the meantime the strikers 
decided to march to the works, and by some 
means stop the work there. A large body 
of them headed by a brass band and their 
leaders, started on their march to the 
works, which were off the public road a 
distance of a few hundred feet. This lone 
officer who was to command these deputies, 
who had not yet arrived, went alone to the 
intersection of the road leading from the 
works to the public highway, and there 
awaited the coming of the stern, half angered 
men, who had at the meeting decided to 
march to the works and stop the work 
there. The strikers marched down the road, 
colors flying, the band playing, every man 
bent upon accomplishing the object of that 
march. They came opposite the road lead- 
ing into the property of the owner of the 
works, wheeled their column off the public 
highway when the stern command "Halt!" 
rang out upon the morning air and was re- 
echoed from the hills behind. They stopped. 



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They looked and there stood one man 
barring the passage of hundreds. These 
men at the moment were determined as he, 
but in calm, but impressive words addressed 
to the leaders particularly, he forbade their 
going further in that direction and advised 
them to return or keep the public road as he 
would not allow them to pass him. There 
was but a short parley. At command of the 
leaders, the band "struck up;" they turned 
back into the highway and marched away, 
leaving this man the lone occupant on the 
road, standing there, his duty done, but how ? 
Some call this personal magnetism; a good 
name for it, but it was hypnotic power of 
soul to soul. 

I talked with some of these men after- 
wards. They admired him, yet for the time 
hated. If you will bring to mind similar 
instances having come under your personal 
observation and you can, perhaps you will 
after reading this better understand. 

I have really given you a sufficient 
number of methods, but my desire is to lead 
you on and up to that perfect and absolute 
confidence, not only in self but in soul 
power, that you may be enabled through 
this knowledge and through this confidence, 
to call out all the strength of soul you have 



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read of or seen in others, and become the 
adept in hypnotic control they have proven 
themselves to be. 

I will give you here another of Prof. 
Harridan's methods: "Place your subject in 
an easy natural attitude, one that will be 
conductive of sleep. Give him to under- 
stand by your easy confident manner 
that you are master of the situation, that 
you understand your business, and that 
you are confident of success. Do not give 
your subject any cause to doubt but that 
the experiment will be successful in every 
way. Never say, "I will see what I can do. " 
Grive him the impression that you know what 
you can do, and there is no chance of failure. 
If you should fail, let your subject feel that 
it is his fault and not yours. If this is 
done the fact that you failed at first would 
not prevent the second attempt being suc- 
cessful. Now to business. "Walk up to 
your subject, look him over critically, rub 
your hands together a little, put his hands 
and arms in an easy position, stroke his 
forehead, slightly brush his hair back a 
little, look directly at his right eye and say, 
"I am now going to put you into a condition 
of quiet sleep, and that you may the more 
readily yield, please relax every muscle and 



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assume a passive, indifferent condition of 
mind and body. Let yourself go perfectly 
easy and relaxed all over. Imagine that 
you are lying down for a quiet sleep just as 
you do when you retire at night. Look 
directly in my eye every moment while I 
look at yours. Let nothing divert your at- 
tention. Look constantly at my right eye 
and listen attentively to what I say. Then 
say: — "You are getting sleepy, relax every 
muscle and make yourself just as easy and 
lax and limp as possible. You feel easy and 
comfortable. A drowsy feeling comes over 
you. Your eyes are getting tired. You 
feel so sleepy, sleepy. Your eyes are begin- 
ning to wink; the lids are getting heavy, 
heavy, heavy. You are sleepy, sleepy, 
sleepy. You are feeling calm; you are at 
rest. Sleep is coming; you are drowsy; your 
eyelids are heavy. You can hardly keep 
your eyes open; you are sleepy, sleepy. 
Your eyelids are heavy, closing, closing; 
your eyes are closing, closing. You cannot 
keep them open; closing, closing, closing, 
closed. Sleepy, sleepy, asleep, sound asleep. 
Soundly asleep from head to foot. Repeat 
this formula of words over and over, and 
vary it to meet the conditions as they de- 
velop. When you see the subject's eyes are 



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getting tired, watery and heavy, make down- 
ward passes with your hands over his face 
without touching it, as the eyes close, touch 
very gently the face with light passes. Press 
your fingers on the closed eyes and the sub- 
ject is sound asleep. If you have a hard 
subject and his eyes do not close, ask him 
to fix his gaze at the ends of your two 
fingers held in a forked position a little 
above his eyes. Let him gaze at them for 
some time, you meanwhile saying: — "Your 
eyelids are heavy, heavy, heavy. You can- 
not keep your eyes open etc." then lower 
your fingers and say: — "Your eyelids are 
drowsy; you are so sleepy that you can no 
longer keep them open. You close your 
eyes; your eyes are closed tight, and you can- 
not open them. You close your eyes, you 
can hear only my voice; your eyes are closed 
tight and you cannot open them. You 
sleep, sleep deeper, you have no desire to 
move, you feel so easy that you cannot stir a 
muscle; you cannot open your eyes." 

In some cases the eyes may not close, 
although the subject looks and feels sleepy. 
In such cases as you repeat the formula, pass 
the hands over the face and gently close the 
eyes. Press upon them slightly and he is 
sound asleep. 



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Some subjects are very susceptible; with 
others it may require a few sittings; on the 
other hand there are some vain individuals, 
who are afterwards ashamed to have been 
hypnotized and who maintain that they have 
been simulating, although in reality they 
have been well hypnotized. 

If the subject has only reached a light 
degree of sleep, say that, "You have been 
influenced and will sleep better next time." 
Many persons say: — "Nobody can hyp- 
notize me." This is but the foolish prattle 
of a child in the presence of an unknown 
force. Only experience can demonstrate 
whether a particular person can be easily 
hypnotized or not. 

If he can be, it implies no weakness of 
nerve or brain or mental or physical infer- 
iority of any sort. If he cannot be it does 
not prove strength of intellect or even of 
will, or the possession of any superior qual- 
ities of mind or body. Really, I can scarcely 
conceive of an individual in average health 
physically and mentally who could not be 
hypnotized if willing to be, for in the every 
day experience in life no person lives who 
does not to some extent, fall under the 
influence of others to greater or less extent, 



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of course, taken unaware, as it were, but 
influenced. 

The very fact that they are not looking 
for it or expecting it, placed them to a 
certain degree "en rapport" with the one 
who exerted that influence." 

This is "often innate power." Edu- 
cated and acquired; where is its limit? In 
reality it can have no limit. There is no 
limit to the universe. In all immensity, 
there is no spot the soul cannot enter. In 
all the infinite, boundless habitations of 
worlds, there is no place to which the soul 
could nob fly, "if sent." Illimitable star- 
studded and planet-bedecked space, offers 
no obstacle to the flight of the lightning 
winged soul or can furnish a nook so obscure 
that it cannot find it, for it is a part of 
the Mighty God himself, the breath of 
Infinity, and when set free from this tempo- 
rary temple of flesh through the calm 
induced by the hypnotic restful sleep, it can 
know no bounds; there is no limit to its 
flight; no limit to the message it may carry; 
no limit to the message, it may return, sub- 
ject only to the control of that soul essence 
with which it may for the time be "en 
rapport." 



The possibilities are beyond conception 
through this power; the breathing, pulsating 
being may be thrown into a trance of death, 
or every fiber of this being be attuned to 
placid rapture and thrill of joy. It may be 
made to hope, to curse, to live one long 
rapturous ecstasy, or doomed to living death, 
despair or hate; use it to work your ends, 
but bear in mind, "responsibility." 

In the hypnotic state all affairs of life 
are forgotten; on the other hand, after 
awakening, the events of the hypnotic con- 
dition are forgotton. Further, in every sub- 
sequent period of hypnosis the events of the 
former similar periods are remembered. 

So, a person who is habitually hyp- 
notized has two continual memories, one for 
the events of his normal life, only when he 
is normal, and one for the events of his 
hypnotic period only when he is hypnotized. 
You may suggest to your subject when once 
under your control any command you may 
wish, and he will obey any suggestion no 
matter how trivial or how great. 

You suggest that he is cold, he is cold. 
If you suggest to him, "You are red in the 
face, you are hot, the perspiration is show- 
ing itself upon your forehead;" your over- 
powering mastery will bring it all about. 



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I You can turn that plastic being to think 
himself a child or a goat, a statesman or a 
fool. 

He will think as you think, act as you 

| command, perform feats of bodily strength 

and even skill not possible in the normal 

state. You can bend him as a reed or bring 

him to a state of catalepsy so rigid as to 

! break before bending. 

You can send that soul to a neighbor or 

far beyond the sea, to the jungles of Africa, 

or the teeming cities of the Orient. You 

may render them acute of sight, or blind as 

I Milton. They will dance or sing, pray or 

| steal for you. You may show him the back 

| of a card from a bran new deck, shuffle it in 

the pack as thoroughly as you wish, he will 

pick it out. 

You may suggest pain, local or general, 
or if pain really exists, you may by sug* 
gestions render him totally insensible of it. 

You may through suggestion, while the 
subject is in the hypnotic state, cause the 
student of philosophy or theology to go 
through the antics of the clown. At your 
command and suggestion he will, no matter 
how modest he may be in the normal state, 
embrace with all the fervor of a lover, a 
dummy of straw for a blushing damsel. 



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You may transform him to the red-faced 
perspiring stoker in the fire room or a man 
of war, to the Admiral upon the bridge. 
You may turn him into a pastry cook or to 
the fine lady of the house. There is no f 
limit to the transformation your suggestive ! 
experiments may bring about. The power |* 
of soul over soul is so mighty. 

There are individuals who are at times 
under such strain of emotion or with a dis- 
position not to be hypnotized that it is almost jj 
impossible to bring them under the power of | 
an operator. They are refractory, purposely^ 
defiant, or under high emotional strain. 
Under such circumstances, resistance, spon- 
taneous or intentional, can be overcome by 
the administration of Morphia, Canabis In-^ 
dica, Chloroform or Chloral Hydrate, which y 
should never be administered except by a| 
physician, and preferably one who knows the 
peculiarities of the subject, as there would be; % 
danger in the use of either in other hands, jj 

Either of these drugs properly adminis- 
tered will in a short time bring about a 
diffused sensation of calm and restfulness. 
In this manner a person may be brought 
under the hypnotic spell, even against his 
will, and respond to appropriate suggestions. 









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During natural sleep, care being taken 
not to awaken the subject, suggestions may 
be and often are given, which, through post- 
hypnotic suggestions, when in the waking 
state, are responded to with the same degree 
1 of fervor as though given while under an 
! induced hypnotic sleep. 

Through suggestions fervently given the 
little sleeping child, calmly and impressively 
given night after night, the little soul may be 
brought en rapport with mother, nurse or 
friend, and its whole being changed. The 
psychological processes rendered more per- 
fect. Vicious habits may in this way be 
broken up and the cobwebs of habits brushed 
away, the soul of the sleeper responding to 
that of the operator through post hypnotic 
suggestions. This method applies, as well as 
to those of more mature years. The possi- 
bilities of this method are wonderful; all that 
is required upon the part of the operator is 
that confidence in and mastery of self, which 
comes slowly but surely to the fervent student 
of this mystic science. 

When one has gained this confidence 
and this mastery, the soul is wafted with its 
message to that of another en rapport, even 
in the waking state. Mastery of self and 
concentration bring the receptive state in the 



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wished-for subject, and thus comes the so- 
called magnetic power. It is but hypnotic 
influence, it is "The lever that moves the 
world," soul transference, soul power. 

Bear in mind thoroughly the first method 

i mentioned # I call your attention once more 
to this that you will never forget it, as one of 
the most certain methods of fixation of gaze 
and thought known. I have never seen it 
mentioned by any other writer upon the sub- 
ject of induction. I have never known of it 
being taught, but its simplicity is so marked 

| and the change so rapid from the fixation of 
gaze upon the object (whatever it may be) 
to that of the eye of the operator that control 
often comes with the first concentrated gaze 
from the eye of the operator. It cannot fail 
to recommend itself. Hold the object for a 
time a distance from the eyes of the subject, 
giving your suggestions as to sleep, etc., as 
written. Slowly draw the object down to a 
direct line between your eyes and the eyes of 
your subject. Cautiously continue your sug- 
gestions; concentrate your whole soul and 
gaze upon those wavering eyes of the subject 
and carefully drop from their line of vision 
the bauble upon which their gaze has been 
fixed. If their eyes fail to follow, and con- 
tinually fixed upon your eyes (as in nearly 



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all cases they will) your power is already in 
control. Their soul is already yours to com 
mand. This method transfers their gaze 
from the bauble to "the windows of your 
soul" without a suspicion on their part. The 
receptive state has come upon them; let loose 
your soul power; you are the master. , 



HOW TO AWAKEN 
THE SUBJECT. 






HOW TO AWAKEN THE SUBJECT. 

The practical operator need never fear 
of losing that power once gained sufficient to 
produce a hypnotic sleep in the subject. The 
soul-force will apply to the awaking as 
surely as in the production of hypnosis. 
But it may fall to your lot to meet with a 
case hypnotized by another and in whom the 
awaking is retarded. 

Suggestions, mental, verbal, and by ges- 
ture, here come into play. First, request 
that you be left alone with the subject; this 
will remove every adverse influence, and it is 
wonderful the influence the presence of others 
often excites; the mental doubt of one un- 
known controlling mind as to your ability to 
awaken the subject may exert its subtile 
influence against that of your own. 

Seat yourself beside the subject and, 
taking one hand in one of your own, gently 
make passes over the subject's face and head 
from below upwards, fervently sending for 
many minutes the soul message to them that 
they have been sleeping sufficiently long and 
that he is now about to awaken. Then 
quietly with suggestions say to him: "You 
will soon awaken; every muscle and nerve of 
your whole body is calm and sweetly resting. 
You will awake shortly refreshed and in- 



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vigorated; your whole body already begins 
to thrill with that restlessness of the awak- 
ing; you are growing restless, your eyes are 
no longer heavy, when I count three you will 
desire to awaken. You are moving, sleep is 
leaving you. Now I am going to count 
three and when I do you will be wide awake. 
One, two, three, all right, wide awake," 
lighting then at the moment you have pro- 
nounced the words, "Three, all right." If 
you now have any doubt as to the subject 
being thoroughly and completely awake, say 
to him: "I wish you to go to sleep for just 
three minutes when I will waken you per- 
fectly and completely; you will then feel per- 
fectly natural, be your own self again, wide 
awake to all the world, refreshed, feeling fine 
and perfectly natural." This you can do in 
a moment with that subject, for your soul is 
already en rapport with his own. Suggest 
to him, "You will sleep just three minutes, I 
will hold your hand the whole three minutes, 
I will not take my hand from yours; when I 
say to you the three minutes have passed, 
your eyes are open, you are wide awake, you 
will awaken more refreshed than ever." 

These double suggestions and manipula- 
tions will awaken him completely, and by 
waking him as your own subject in your own 



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manner you will have eliminated from his 
being the last vestige of power of the pre- 
vious operator and, by substituting your own, 
have perfect control. 

It is best at all times to be doubly sure 
as to the awaking. Too much care cannot 
be taken. That you may know for a cer- 
tainty that the 'trance state is completely 
broken, particularly after the deeper stages 
of Hypnotism. 



POST HYPNOTIC 
SUGGESTIONS. 



POST HYPNOTIC SUGGESTIONS. 

You can suggest to your subject that 
next Tuesday night he will attend church, 
and he will go, only to find the doors locked. 
You may suggest that at 3 : 30 the following 
Saturday he will sleep in his chair, or any 
other place you may mention, for the period 
of one hour, and he will fall asleep at the 
time and place, and quietly and peacefully 
rest for the length of time indicated by you, 
while he is under the spell. 

This is called Post Hypnotic Suggestion. 

He will perform any possible act you 
may suggest while under your influence, or 
at any subsequent time you may command 
him to do so, and he will have no recollection 
of the fact that you ordered him to do this, 
and could give no reason for so doing. 

After reading carefully the incidents 
connected with the foul murder of President 
McKinley, and knowing what I know, and 
having seen the many and wonderful mani- 
festations brought about through Post Hypno- 
tic power, I am satisfied that Leon F. Czol- 
gosz, the assassin, was a tool in the hands of 
some group of Anarchists, who had among 
their number some vile man or woman who, 
through Post Hypnotic Suggestion, led him 
to his awful deed. His acts at the time and 



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during the trial, what little he said in answer 
to the many questions put to him, and the 
manner of his speech, all point to the fact 
that he was "under the spell." I will never 
believe differently. 

He has been led to believe it was his 
duty. He did the deed and met his fate like 
a stoic, not knowing when or how the awful 
promptings came. I am writing this Septem- 
ber 27th, 1901. If I should change my mind 
regarding this, you will not read the above. 



AUTO 
SUGGESTION. 



AUTO SUGGESTION. 

Hypnotism may be greatly assisted by 
Auto or Self-suggestion; that the subjective 
mind or soul of an individual is amenable to 
suggestion by his own objective mind is a 
Psychological fact. Suggestion by an objec- 
tive consciousness or mind to its own sub- 
limal self or goul, is called Auto or Self- 
suggestion. 

Many physicians are to-day, by impress- 
ing the minds of their patients with the fact 
that Auto or Self-suggestion, they may rid 
themselves of diseased conditions or vicious 
habits, working wonders which to the un- 
tutored world of a few years since would 
have been looked upon as miracles. The 
state of reverie immediately preceding a 
natural sleep is found to be most appropriate 
for treatment of one's self by this kind of 
suggestibility, and it is well for the individual 
who desires to influence his sublimal self to 
at times, just as he is about to yield to slum- 
bers, to say to himself : 

"Now I will no longer be a slave to this 
vice or dominant vice which is a curse to me, 
and I know it to be," to lapse into sleep with 
such a thought paramount in the mind is 
equivalent to the suggestion of a hypnotist. 
A slave to the tobacco or whisky habit 



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actuated by a sincere desire to become rid of 
it, should be advised to conceive himself free 
from the habit as he is falling asleep and to 
think determinedly that u Whisky is a great 
curse to me, it is not necessary either for my 
welfare, physical or mental, it can do me no 
good ; it rather injures me than does good; it 
hardens the nerve and mind fibre, and renders 
me du]l and careless. I have no need for it. 
It only stimulates for the time being and 
then when the effect is off, I am worse, far 
worse, than though I had not taken it at all. 
I do not need it, and will have no appetite 
for it in the future. I am done with it." 

Every time that slumber begins to mani- 
fest itself, use self suggestion on these lines. 

What appeals to the whisky, drug or 
tobacco habit appeals to any other, no matter 
what it may be. It is well to advise Auto 
suggestion in these cases, even before sugges- 
tion under the hypnotic state it will render 
the subject more susceptible to the receptive 
state, and under such circumstances Auto 
suggestion renders doubly effective treatment 
by Post Hypnotic Suggestion. 

Quackenbas, in his wonderful work upon 
Hypnotism, mental and mortal culture, states 
that "an objective consciousness can suggest 
so forcibly to its own subjective consciousness 



as to be itself swayed reflexly by that sub- 
jective consciousness which it has itself im- 
pressed and in the one line of its impression 
is a most marvelous fact of mind." 

"Auto suggestion is the great psychologi- 
cal miracle and few realize the part it plays 
in the drama of life. It accounts for much 
self-deception and self- elation, it regulates to 
a certain extent the number of births among 
intelligent people, and explains the increase 
of sterilty among American women. It ren- 
ders immune from disease and perpetuates 
diseased state; it has even changed non-con- 
tagious into contagious maladies; it is lord 
of the realm of habit; it is the medium of 
utterance for hereditary tendencies; it lays 
bare the secret of influence, the influence of 
what is seen and heard, of things unsaid, of 
things undone; it explains the accomplish- 
ment of seemingly impossible facts; it is the 
channel through which genius finds expres- 
sion; the means employed to tempt. The 
objective self to impress its own sublimal 
self for the purpose of inclining to meritorious, 
foolish or reprehensible action on the part of 
the objectiveself, are everywhere con- 
spicuous." 

The devices of tradesmen to entrap the 
dupe's personality have become notorious. 



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The objective self is first impressed 
through the sense organs; it then begins, 
often unwittingly, its work of suggestion, its 
work of suggestion to its sublimal follow the 
desirability, or propriety or necessity of 
purchasing what is ill-adapted, perhaps un- 
necessary, generally useless, often injurious. 
The controlling desire is next transmitted in 
a return current, as an imperative automatic 
demand to the self that acts through bodies 
organs, and the purpose of your solicitor, 
window decorator, displays of tempting 
wares, or bargain counter is accomplished. 

The science of advertising is based on 
the foregoing principle, and there is no better 
illustration of this fact than is to be found in 
its relation to the patent medicine business. 

Every practitioner of medicine is aware 
that the drugs he administers are rendered 
more effective by a belief in their efficacy. 
Confidence in a doctor engenders life serving 
! Auto Suggestion ; whereas, doubt or absence 
; of all faith in a physician and his treatment 
is apt to be accompanied with negative re- 
sults. " The talisman is faith. " 

For this reason a knowledge of the re me 
dies prescribed is often concealed from the 
patient, in order to baffle any resistance to 
the physiological action of familiar medicines. 



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A moral may in like manner be 
drawn from the credulity of the modern 
public, who are ready to believe any tale of 
miraculous cure reported and illustrated in 
the daily press. The greater the improba- 
bility, the more readily do the gulls seize 
and swallow it. 

Faith cures, mind cures, gold and other 
drink habit cures, Christian science cures, 
cancer paster and plasters, and a thousand 
embrocations, elixir, salves and syrups, each 
number its disappointed victims by the thous- 
ands, and experience seems to be a very poor 
teacher, so far as these fad chasing sufferers 
are concerned. 

The philosophy of such credulity is as 
follows; The subjects want to be cured, 
and by exaggerated suggestions they deceive 
their own sublimal self into monstrous beliefs 
regarding the possibilities of cure, and use. 
tonic after tonic as the most clumsily offered 
cures. Similarly through Auto Suggestion, 
some patients becomes persuaded that they 
are not suffering from organic disease, pass on 
through several stages of its progress without 
invoking the aid of a physician, and find 
themselves face to face with death before 
they are undeceived. It is indeed a happy 
state, a much to be desired condition where 



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one may become master of self, truly master 
of his own mind and of his own soul." 

The property or power is innate in all 
mankind and is easily brought out and brought 
to bear through Auto Suggestion. You may 
become possessed of this power of self-mastery 
and be able to render any part of your body 
insensible to pain or to induce sleep and re- 
main in that state any length of time you 
may desire. 

It requires confidence and determination, 
but these are gained by mastery over others 
little by little, and mastery over self, grow- 
ing stronger as confidence comes. To dem- 
onstrate this, go into a quiet comfortable 
room, darkened somewhat, lie down quietly 
and calmly, and in a few minutes concentrate 
your mind and gaze upon some small object, 
i preferably in a direct line of your vision, 
! without turning your eye, let every muscle, 
| if possible, become relaxed. Forget all out- 
| ward things. Breaths slowly and deeply, 
! excluding all thoughts of the world, self or 
I or others, other than that you are going to 
\ sleep with every breath you draw calmly. 
| Hold to that idea, and that with every breath 
j you are going deeper, deeper, sounder asleep ; 
j that you are becoming totally unconscious of 
! all else but restful sleep, not that you wish 



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to sleep, but that you will sleep; that you 
are going, going, sound asleep. Keep your 
eyes upon the object and think of only going 
to sleep, nothing else. Do not be in too 
great haste, but you are going to sleep, mind 
concentrated upon that restful sleep that is 
coming, coming for an hour, two hours or 
or any time within reason. 

Always set a time for awaking. You 
will wake at that time refreshed, invigorated 
and strengthened. There are well authenti- 
cated cases in India, of Hindoos who have 
through induced hypnotic condition remained 
in a state of blissful unconsciousness for 
weeks; of those who were placed away in 
their graves, until grass grew over them and 
was harvested, and upon being disinterred, 
returned to life. 

One remarkable instance is that of a 
famous holy man who, to demonstrate his 
ability to some distinguished men and con- 
vince the ruler of the province that he pos- 
sessed this power over his psychic organism, 
apparently died and was placed in a rifealed 
coffin, which was put into a vault, the en* 
tra nee to which was also sealed and closely 
guarded by soldiers. At the end of six 
weeks, the time set by himself, the coffin was 
taken out of the sepulcher in the presence of 



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i the Rajah and several other credible wit- 
f nesses (English as well as native), and when 
the coffin was opened the body had every 
appearance of death, but after being slowly 
revived by his faithful servant, the ghastly 
\ looking and corpse-like being raised up in 
the coffin and addressed these words to the 
skeptical Rajah: "Do you believe me now?" 
This phenomenon of self-hypnotism was wit- 
nessed by Dr. McGuggor, and full details of 
it given in his "History of the Sikes." 

The effect of self-suggestion is a most 
wonderful phenomenon and there can be no 
question that sickness and even death are 
caused by it. The following instance related 
by Dr. Hacktuck: 

A Frenchman had been condemned to 
death for committing some crime, and, his 
friends wishing to avoid the disgrace of a 
public execution, consented to be made the 
subject of an experiment. It was stated to 
the condemned man that it was decided that 
he was to be bled to death. The executioner, 
after having bound him, bandaged his eyes, 
and after his arm had been slightly pricked a 
small stream of warm water was made to 
trickle down it and drop into a basin, the 
assistants all the while keeping up a con- 
tinuous comment on the supposed weakening 



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condition. "See how pale lie looks. He ie 
getting faint; his heart is beating slower and 
slower; his pulse has almost stopped," and 
numerous other remarks of this sort. In a 
few minutes the miserable man died with 
decided symptoms of heart syncope from loss 
of blood without having lost a single drop, a 
victim of suggestion. 

Bear in mind that in the use of Auto 
suggestion you gain the mastery over self in 
exactly the same manner that you would 
give suggestions to others. Make the sug- 
gestion forcible and positive; if you are alone 
speak in a low tone of voice to yourself and 
convey the suggestion to yourself, as you 
would were you hypnotizing another. Let 
quiet and restful state be present. You will 
work wonders with yourself in a very few 
trials, and in time will gain a perfect mastery. 

It is mastery over self that gives one 
that confidence in self by which they mani- 
fest by their presence alone, or by their 
writings even, or their thoughts, influence 
over others, while in the waking state it is 
very often called personal magnetism, and 
will become one great tributary of your suc- 
cess in life. It is hypnotism, not magnetism. 
A power to impress, through being in pos- 
session of that confidence and mastery of self 



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that has come to you through the hypnotic 
control, you have at different times exercised 
over others or through thoughts and confid- 
ing investigation, and thought upon the 
subject. 

It is the wonderful power of soul trans- 
ference possessed by one who has gained this 
mastery. To them is given the power of 
attracting others to themselves and to their 
interests. They control minds. They influ- 
ence the opinions of others. They create 
friendship which lasts for all time. 

They win their way to the hearts of 
individuals or to the hearts of the populace. 
They win love, affection, wealth, and power. 
They mould the will of others because they 
have the power to mould their own. It is 
the mighty force of mental suggestion which 
has led the world to call Lincoln, Blaine, 
Gladstone, Bryan, magnetic men. Their 
powers lay in the simple but mighty means 
they possessed, through mental suggestion, 
of impressing others coupled with impressing 
presence and well timed-utterances. 

There was or is nothing of magnetism 
in this influence and power over others. 
There was or is nothing but this confidence 
induced by self mastery, which, through 
forms of lesser hypnotism, have impressed 



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and through this soul-power of the one, 
brought into touch, and moulded the souls of 
many. 

It is Anto suggestion, then, which has 
led to the mastery of self with subsequent 
power over others. It is through Anto sug- 
gestion that many a verdict has been ren- 
dered that puzzled at the time the judge, and 
at no very great distant date, the jury, who 
at the time were nothing more or less than 
automatons who responded to the suggestive 
appeals of a master at the bar. 

Kecall to mind, if you will, the many 
wonderful manifestations you have seen and 
have known of suggestive means in the 
church itself, used to induce a state of mind 
among the people favorable to the reception 
of its creed. Note, if you will, the oft re- 
peated sense impressions made manifest at 
the hour of mass, by the magnificent frescoes, 
the arched roof, the grand altars, the silent 
marble turned to Saint. The subdued light 
which, passing through the tinted panes, falls 
so gently, so calmly upon those gathered there. 
The soft, subdued music drawing out the 
soul as music can, by bringing through its 
inductive charm tones and almost holy calm, 
senses captivated, receptive state induced. 
Suggestion sways and moves. 



HYPNOTIC INDUC- 



TION of CATALEPSY 



HYPNOTIC INDUCTION OF 
CATALEPSY. 

Stand behind your subject as he stands 
upon his feet, gently close his eyes with your 
fingers, make a few light strokes over his 
eyes, and say to him: Your eyes are shut 
now, do not open them." Place the fingers of 
the right hand upon the back of his neck, 
pressing the spine gently, the fingers of the 
left hand on the back above his hips, also 
pressing the spine, then in a firm, positive voice 
say: "Rigid, rigid, every part of your body 
is getting rigid, rigid, rigid, stiff, stiff, then 
stroke the arms and limbs downward, all the 
time keeping your mind well intensely con- 
centrated upon the subject. Hold the thought 
firmly in your mind that he is, and will get 
rigid. "Now my will is drawing you back 
gently, you are falling gently backward. I 
will catch you, you will not fall; my influence 
is drawing you back, and you will fall rigid 
and stiff in my arms. Do not fear I will 
catch you, but you are stiff from head to 
foot." 

Your subject will, if susceptible to your 
influence, fall back stiff into your arms, you 
hold him and repeat the suggestion: "You 
are stiff and rigid ; you can pay no heed to any- 
thing, but my voice; you are stiff as a board, 
you heed nothing but what I say to you." 



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Thus in an emphatic tone of voice, you 
can continue these suggestions as necessary: 
your subject is in a state of catalepsy. You 
may suggest s^leep, and at the same time per- 
fect freedom from strain. You may place 
his head upon one chair and his feet upon 
another, and suggest, that while he is rigid 
and stiff "there is no strain, no effort, but 
sleep, quiet sleep." 

You may now awaken him by saying: 
"I am now about to awaken you. You will 
feel your muscle relax, and you will drop 
gently to the floor, and when you do, you 
will be wide awake, feeling all right, no sore- 
ness, all right." His eyes will open, as you 
suggest, jnst as he touches the floor, and you 
should explain to him that he has been in a 
state of catalepsy, and that at some future 
time you will place him again in the same 
state, when he will sustain a heavy weight 
without difficulty; and that his sleep will 
become deeper and more profound each time 
you place him in that state. 

Do not keep the subject in a cataleptic 
state too long. Should he not awaken by 
the above suggestions, slap your hands loudly 
at the side of his head, and say in a firm 
voice: "Wake up! Wake up! All right!" 



TELEPATHY. 



TELEPATHY. 

Telepathy, or "soul telegraphy" is the 
transmission of a message from one being to 
another, through the psychic power of the 
lightning- winged soul, the sublimal self. It 
is a power inherent in every human being, 
who is in possession of his faculties, whose 
soul is not bound, and enables him to trans- 
mit his thoughts to another through the 
medium of the original wireless telegraph, 
which is as boundless in its extent as the 
universe, and the soul set free with more than 
lightning speed, carries the message to its 
destination and returns with its vaporish 
answer. 

It will transmit the emotions, the wishes, 
the thoughts, the longings to another and 
return laden with tht impressions made upon 
it, and with intelligence without. Telepathy 
knows no bounds when the conditions are 
favorable to its mystics manifestations, and 
is most successfully accomplished during a 
total suspension of the action of the physical; 
the soul is thus set free. 

It matters little then whether the princi- 
pals of this mysterious phenomenon are near 
to each other, as are the corners of the globe, 
so long as the psychic affinity exists between 



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them, the message is sent, the answer comes, 
there is no space, the soul does not leap at a 
bound. 

It is an undisputed fact that by an effort 
of the will and deliberate concentration of 
mind, one person can, through his soul flight, 
transfer or prompt his thought to another. 
That transference is telepathy. 

It is through tbis power, that second 
sight, reading the past and present, and I 
believe the future at times, of other minds is 
manifested. 

In every day life these strange phe- 
nomena are seen and felt. How often it 
happens we meet one of whom we form an 
opinion, a feeling of distrust or dislike, this 
inherent power is in nearly all of us. Are 
you ever wrong in the estimate of that indi- 
vidual? Very seldom, if ever, and yet at the 
time you are unaware of the detail and the 
reason from which the opinion is formed; 
there is no affinity there. 

You may by mental suggestion mould 
them with your power, you are forewarned. 
We often define the meaning of a face with- 
out knowing why; we recognize conditions of 
happiness or sorrow instantaneously without 
realizing the details of our impressions. You 



— 113 



often read the wish and thought of another, 
and cannot tell why or how. How many 
times in conversation with another, have you 
read their very thought and remarked: 
u Why, you took the words out of my mouth." 
In this instance there is affinity; with soul 
going and coming to soul, telepathy; in these 
instances the milder power of hypnosis. 

Thus acts the soul with its capabilities 
of spaceless action, upon another soul with 
which it is in affinity. In the higher power 
of telepathy where affinity exists, where the 
psychic forces are en rapport, the possibil- 
ities are most wonderful; when the mind is 
deeply concentrated upon some distant per- 
son. The sudden coming into consciousness 
of an absent friend, who appears very soon 
after, is proof of the action of the psychic force 
at a distance where, by deep emotion and 
concentration, the mind becomes so unstrung 
that ordinary means of perception through 
the physical senses is lost for the time being; 
the independent action of the soul comes on; 
it may, it does, take its flight; it is temporary 
anto hypnosis. There may be but a moment 
of suspension of faculty, but during this 
moment the spell is on and brought about 
through the intensity of concentration upon 
the soul of that other one, and the capabil- 



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ities of communicating these thoughts, these -j. 
impressions and influences through the soul ) 
set free, became possible. Thus you will see 
nothing of the physical in these manifesta- 
tions; the physical cannot act at a distance; ? 
it is but the action of the mystic soul. 

It requires, then, no stretch of the imag- 
ination to believe that where the normal 
senses are suspended, if but for a moment, 
the soul may take and receive and transmit 
communications, independent of the physical 
being. 

The soul cannot perish; it will live, the 
spiritual essence, forever and forever. The 
soul is sent out into space by that power 
brought about through perfect confidence in 
and mastery of self. Without this mastery 
and confidence one can accomplish nothing; 
with it, all can be accomplished. No special 
effort is necessary further than confidence 
and concentration. Gently sit down and call 
up the individuals with whom you wish to 
communicate; concentrate your mind upon 
them until their pictures stand before you. 

Vividly picture them until plainly you 
can see them. Your soul will in some meas- 
ure meet their soul, not in perfect rapport 
perhaps the first time, but gradually the 
affinity will become stronger and stronger 



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and more perfect each time, until en rapport 
with one another the communications come. 
Perfect transmission may be brought 
about, no matter what the distance, if a time 
is agreed upon between the two. It is a 
mighty power this; it is yours, my reader, as 
it is the possession of thousands, who already 
use it. 



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MEDICAL HYPNOSIS 



MEDICAL HYPNOSIS. 

Moulded as we are to a great extent by 
ante-natal suggestion, is it to be wondered at 
that we are so susceptible to the power of 
suggestion when developed? 

Psychological research has demonstrated 
for a certainty that so-called maternal impres- 
sions are but maternal suggestions, and that 
the only method of eliminating those charac- 
teristics or predispositions, which have 
through heredity been instilled into every 
fibre of one's physical and mental being, is 
through suggestion in some form or other 
possible of elimination in the developed indi- 
viduals. 

Peculiar traits and types are bred in the 
exalted human, as well as in the lower order 
of animal life, and the great mistake has been 
and is made that the human parent has neg- 
lected in painstaking care, the breeding of 
their own progeny, while making a very 
scientific study of and taking the utmost care 
in the breeding of their own domestic stock. 
Thus it is that heriditary as well as acquired 
traits or peculiarities come under the magic 
power of suggestion. The cigarette or to- 
bacco habit, the drink habit, the morphia 
habit, kleptomania, or any unnatural, vicious 
or injurious habit, stammering, nervous 
asthma, ovarian pain, sleeplessness, St. Vitus 



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dance, hysteria, all eye affections due to 
nervousness, the pains of childbirth, even, are 
cured by suggestion of soul to soul, while in 
the receptive state. 

This power, potent in all of us, subtile 
and invisible as it is, is "the lever that moves 
the world/ 5 It is the unseen soul and we 
all have felt its influence. 

Those of you who have never made a 
study of this mystic science have known and 
felt in your associations with others that they 
or you possessed this power. You have 
noticed that there are some over whom you 
have exerted a greater influence than others, 
and that there were people who seemed to 
exert a greater influence over you than did 
others. 

This is the key to success, the use of this 
power. 

See to it, that through mastery of self and 
confidence in self that they and not you are 
the one to receive this soul power. 

You may by exercise of this power 
through hypnotic influence raise the heredi- 
tary neurotic up and out of their distress. 
You may through the soul mastery of sug- 
gestion unloose their bonds. You may bring 
them out of the darkness and misery of the 
conditions brought about through their de- 



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praving birthright up into the light that only 
an unburdened soul can enjoy, and the re- 
sults of this power manifest upon conditions 
born in the subject, are as wonderful as are 
the results of suggestion upon those condi- 
tions acquired after development. 

The methods employed in hypnotic 
healing are all based upon the controlling 
force of one soul over the other. Nearly all 
use passes, gently and soothingly down over 
the parts affected. 

Each one has methods peculiar to him- 
self or herself. The idea is to soothe by the 
hypnotic power of suggestion through the 
eye, the gesture, facial expression, speech or 
the mystic will, you soothe, unburden, take 
off the strain. 



MANIFESTATIONS. 






MANIFESTATIONS. 

I attended a gathering of people calling 
themselves Christians but a few weeks 
since, who were gathered for a few days' 
outing in the name of their Savior. The 
surroundings were all that they or their 
God could desire. A grand poem of nature 
surrounded them. The towering forest trees 
whose symmetrical branching limbs hung 
heavy with a velvety verdure, stood just 
thick enough upon a gently sloping plateau, 
backed by a heavily wooded hill. A spring, 
from which poured a crystal stream of water 
as pure as a snowflake and as cold, burst its 
earthly bounds almost in the center of this 
sylvan grove, and its waters rippled laugh- 
ingly down to the placid river, which, like a 
broad ribbon of glistening silver, it welcomed 
to its bosom. 

In the midst of all this grandeur of 
nature's beauty stood a tabernacle, and sur- 
rounding it upon three sides were the tem- 
porary houses of the holy campers. The 
grounds were crowded with people, all kinds 
and sizes. 

The tabernacle as I approached it, being 
attracted thereto by strange, weird and pecu- 
liar sounds, was also crowded. Upon a plat- 
form at one end of the covered space were 
standing a motley, and from what I saw of 



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them, a suggestive, twenty or thirty, black 
and white, men and women, and Egyptian 
sun never looked down upon the antics of 
the howling dervish, or the mysterious incan- 
tations of its far-famed fakirs or soothsaying 
priesthood, and gazed upon a more peculiar 
scene. With elevated arms and clapping 
hands, at times some dancing, some whirling, 
some bowing forward, some backward, some 
moaning, some shouting, some laughing, 
some crying. They, as a whole, made a 
most impressive picture. In their midst was 
their master, for the time being at least, a 
man who ruled them, who moulded them 
and many in that large assemblage, as the 
sculptor moulds his clay. Out in one of the 
aisles stood a young woman with arms ex- 
tended and hands in spasmodic action, her 
eyes raised toward the roof; her head bent 
backward at times, until she appeared to be 
ready to fall; her lips moving; her whole face 
wreathed in smiles of enravishment. She 
had occupied that spot for hours. She was 
under a spell. She was enravished, was in a 
state of ecstasy; she was under the power of 
a master in Hypnotism. Her soul was en 
rapport with that of another. Was that 
other the Christ? I saw her during that 
afternoon, when the power was on them all, 



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fall prostrate on the straw-covered floor of 
that "temple of what?" — fall among others 
who were already down, and who shouted 
their Hosannas when another sanctified one 
fell among them, exhausted or overcome. 
They gave up their gold and their silver and 
their nickles and their copper. They gave 
up their gold watches and their silver watches 
and their Waterburys. They gave up their 
jewelry. To whom? To a man, who, by 
seductive and persuasive suggestion while 
they were under his hypnotic power, while 
their souls were his to mould, used them for 
his purpose that afternoon. It may have 
been for the benefit of the church of Christ, 
and for the furtherance of that mighty gospel 
which has done so much to civilize the world. 
This was just one afternoon and only a part 
of it; I have seen many such under the same 
banner. 

Those grand old trees with their tower- 
ing tops, 
And the deep wooded hills behind, 
With the purling stream from the syl- 
van spring, 
And the river, as it 'round them winds, 
Have sheltered and watered for many a 

year, 
Those campers who come and go; 



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And are waiting in grandeur for an- 
other year, 
To shelter and water the mystic show. 

No, this is not overdrawn. a The lever 
that moves the world," the world of com- 
merce, the world of politics, the world of 
religion, the world of love, the world of hate, 
has, does, and will move them. 

The "Assassin Sultan" of Turkey, Abdul 
Hamid, made a study of Hypnotism from 
his boyhood, becoming a confirmed adept in 
magic, and through its power gained that 
luxurious throne and the imperial harem. 
Vile and unworthy as he is, his knowledge 
of the "Black Art" (it's black indeed if so 
used) led him to power. The Prince of 
Talial, a minister of the Sultan, and governor 
of Crete, had a son who mingled with the 
extraordinary political world surrounding the 
palace of Abdul, and from knowledge gained 
through these sources, and from his own 
father, he makes the above statement in his 
book, "The Private Life of the Sultan." 

Your subject will, when under hypnotic 
power, believe and hear and see and do just 
as you suggest. Your suggestions will turn 
him to a child or a philosopher. He may be 



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made to believe that he is a horse, a pig, a 
lion, or anything else within the realms of 
animal life. 

Suggestion brings many hallucinations 
of sight. The subject may be made to see 
some one who is not in sight or present; or, 
those present may, through suggestion, be 
made to vanish as far as the consciousness of 
the subject is concerned; or, you may suggest 
that A, who is present, is not A but B, he 
will so recognize him. 

The sense of smell may be so changed 
by suggestion that the most fragrant perfume 
becomes offensive, or that they smell strong 
ammonia for the delicate aroma of sweet 
violets or the perfume of new mown hay. 

Sight, hearing, all the senses, ideas, 
hopes, aspirations, acts and deeds, are all at 
the will of the master. 

"The lever that moves the world." 



LOOKING IT OVER. 



LOOKING IT OVER 

In reading other works on Hypnotism 
you will note that the soul power is called 
personal magnetism, or magnetic influence, or 
mental magnetism. If you will keep in 
view the fact that whenever or wherever you 
read or hear these words, that their true 
scientific, psychological meaning is soul 
powee, not magnetism. It will be of great 
help to you in reading any of the many valu- 
able works on Hypnosis. 

It is through the powerful influence of 
mind that the soul is sent upon its mission; 
and it is secondarily the receptive mind that 
is acted upon by the soul of the subject. 

This is the true theory of Hypnosis. 
Not many years since, this power was known 
as Mesmerism; later as Braidism, and as 
Magnetism. As I have stated, Prof. Reynolds, 
my first instructor, taught that this power 
was nerve power. It was, as you have 
learned, soul power. It might as well be 
named for Prof. Reynolds as for Mesmer or 
Braid, or the Magnet. The receptive state 
was brought upon the subject by fixation of 
thought or gaze, by these methods almost as 
surely as under the methods of to-day, but 
suggestion then in some form brought about 
the manifestations as they do to-day, and did 



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in the ages past; and it is through the won- 
derful workings of mental suggestion, or soul 
transference, that the word "magnetism," has 
been, and still is so freely used. 

When we realize and thoroughly under- 
stand that the sexual or physical body is 
subservient to the mind, and that the mind 
is subservient to the soul, as I trust by this 
time we do, we have the key that unlocks 
the dark, hidden mysteries of the occult past, 
and turns on the brilliant searchlight through 
that great dynamo of psychological research 
and investigations of the present age. 

We, all of us, have very many reasons 
for believing and knowing that there are so 
great a number of peculiar types of people 
that it may almost be truly said, "there are 
no two alike." It would then be very rea- 
sonable to suppose that no one peculiar 
method could or would be successful in so 
many vastly different types and characteris- 
tics as are presented by the genus Homo. 

As you go on with your study and in- 
vestigations — and particularly the working — 
of this subject, methods will come to you 
"thick and fast;" methods adapted to the 
individual subject; methods adapted to the 
many, and methods which will be as success- 
ful as any you may have seen in print. 



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It is a deep and fascinating subject; one 
in which you will never lose interest; one 
which will broaden your mind, brighten 
every intellectual faculty, strengthen your 
physical being and set free the untrammeled 
soul. 

"The proper study of mankind is man." 
Not the dual man only, not the sexual or 
physical or mental man, but th# complete 
man ; that trinity exalted by the Omnipotent 
Creator- 
It indeed is a proper matter for study 
and for thought. The more one can see and 
feel, the more one can know; the more thor- 
ough the investigation, the more settled and 
fixed the resulting conclusion. 

So in the study of this science: the 
farther you may penetrate behind the mystic 
veil, the brighter the light; the higher your 
flight, the broader your conception; the 
deeper you delve, the more fixed your con- 
clusion. 

Study not one man, but the many; use 
not one method, but any which may in your 
mind be adapted to the exigencies in each 
particular case. 

When the receptive state has been in- 
duced, no matter how, the opportune moment 
is present; suggestion is the hand that strikes 



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the strings all in harmony with your soul; 
suggestion is at your command, the power is 
turned on. 

Your thoughts, made known through 
any channel of suggestion, have attuned a 
responsive chord in the soul of that being, 
and they obey. 

It is attraction of fixed attention in some 
form that induces the receptive state, whether 
it be the fixation of gaze or mind upon some 
object held for that purpose. A revolving 
mirror, the low, sweet melody of entrancing 
music, the modulated voice, the gesture, the 
winning sparkle of fascinating eyes, or the 
attractive hypnotic presence of one who has 
first mastered self, the monotonous roll of the 
breakers upon the shore, the purling of the 
brook, the rustling, plunging cataract, or the 
locomotive, that ponderous mass of almost 
living still, all have played their part in 
inducing the momentary receptive state, and 
at times to danger. 

The presence of certain people, or the 
absence of others, induces calm at times, 
to many. To one in accord with nature and 
her wondrous works, "the silence of the 
mighty woods" breaths over him the mystic 
spell. In others, strange and inexplicable as 
it may seem, the mind is calmed, and strain 



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subdued, by the detonations and reverbera- 
tions of the rolling, earth-rocking thunder 
peal, which in many others bring on strain 
or fear. I am one of those to whom the 
vivid lightning bolt, the tremulous, crashing 
thunder's cracking roar bring calm. 

To me they combine the mighty grandeur 
of the great inspiring pyrotechnics of the all- 
powerful Creator, and the cannonade of 
heaven. I love them. There is impressive 
beauty in the storm to me, as well as in the 
calm, the mystic hypnosis of the begetter. 
Thus the receptive state in many ways is 
induced. 

When induced, no matter how, is the 
time for suggestion to one's self, or the sub- 
ject. Whether it be in the quiet of the 
home, the office, the stage, the pulpit, before 
the court, the schoolroom, or the street, no 
matter where. If the receptive state is on, 
suggestion opens wide the doors to power. 

It would seem unnecessary to repeat. I 
would not, but that it is my desire to thor- 
oughly implant in your minds all facts neces- 
sary, and that if, even through repetition, this 
knowledge and confidence be gained by you, 
my wishes have been accomplished, and you 
led up to the mastery. 



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You cannot fail to notice the important 
part suggestions play, in not only inducing 
the receptive condition, but in all later man- 
ifestations of the hypnotic state, no matter in 
what degree, from the lightest fascination to 
the deepest hypnotic sleep. 

In Auto, or self suggestion, the same 
method holds good. One quietly and gently 
suggests himself into a receptive state, then 
through forceful and soulful suggestions 
brings about the conditions of mind and body 
most desired. 

Thus comes the mastery of self; thus 
comes the confidence that so sets free your 
own power that it does not fail you when 
you wish to use it over others. 

This confidence in and mastery of self 
strengthens and broadens one, and elevates 
him to that strength and height of power 
when his own soul is subservient to his de- 
sires, and, sent out by suggestion, lightning- 
like in speed and force, fulfills its mission. 

In post-hypnotic fulfillment of sugges- 
tion made the subject under the spell of an 
operator, the incentive to carry out the sug- 
gestion comes so vividly that, without will of 
his own, but following the suggested will of 
the operator, he fulfills the requirement of 



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the suggestion, if it be within the bounds 
of possibility so to do. 

Thus, through all stages of hypnotic 
state, the soul power meets the response the 
operator desires, and brings about through 
suggestion accepted and acted upon by the 
subservient sublimal self, all the many phe- 
nomena made manifest through this potent 
force. 

The wonders of the clairvoyant state 
are but the workings of the soul, sent out by 
suggestion to perceive, and then return with 
its unerring message. Distance adds no 
obstacle. As in telepathy, the only requisite 
is the power sent affinity bound soul, through 
whose wonder-working manifestations all 
hypnotic results are obtained. 

Is there, in hypnotic manifestation, a 
philosophical explanation of that belief of 
the ancient races of the earth, in transmigra- 
tion of soul? 

In that magnificent revel of mind of 
Wm. H. Story, with which I bring to a close 
this work, Cleopatra, the much loved, and 
loving Egyptian Queen, gives expression to 
the ideas prevalent among those people. I 
append it hereto because of its beauty and 
descriptive strength. 



CLEOPATRA'S 
DREAM. 



CLEOPATRA'S DREAM— A REVEL 
OF THE IMAGINATION. 

(It is something that will bear reading 
over and over again as a pure psychological 
study. The words are those of a lunatic, the 
logic that of love, the story that of a phi- 
losopher.) 

Here, Charmian, take my bracelets; 

They bar with a purple stain 
My arms. Turn over my pillows — 

They are hot where I have lain. 
Open the lattice wider, 

A gauze on my bosom throw, 
And let me inhale the odors 

That over the garden flow. 

I dreamed I was with my Antony, 

And in his arms I lay; 
Ah, me! The vision has vanished — 

Its music has died away. 
The flame and the perfume hath perished — 

As this spiced aromatic pastille 
That wound the blue smoke of its odor 
Is now but an ashy hill. 

Scatter upon me rose leaves — 

They cool me after my sleep; 
And with sandal odors fan me 

Till in my veins they creep; 



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Reach down the flute, and play me 

A melancholy tune, 
To rhyme with a tune that has vanished, 

And the slumbering afternoon. 

There, drowsing in golden sunlight, 

Loiters the low, smooth Nile, 
Through slender papyra, that cover 

The sleeping crocodile; 
The lotus lolls on the water, 

And opens its heart of gold, 
And over its broad leaf pavement 

Never a ripple is rolled. 
The twilight breeze is too lazy 

Those feathery palms to wave, 
And yon little cloud is as motionless 

As a stone above the grave. 

Ah, me! This lifeless nature 

Oppresses my heart and brain. 
Oh, for a storm and thunder 

For lightning, and wild, fierce rain! 
Fling down that lute — I hate it! 

Take rather his buckler and sword, 
And crash them and clash them together 

Till this sleeping world is stirred. 

Hark to my Indian beauty! 

My cockatoo, creamy and white, 



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With roses under his feathers 

That flash across the light. 
Look, listen, as backward and forward 
S |To his hoop of gold he clings; 
How he trembles, with crest uplifted, 

And he shrieks as he madly swings. 
O cockatoo, shriek for Antony! 

Cry, "Come my love, come home!" 
Shriek, "Antony! Antony! Antony! Antony!' 7 

Till he hears you even in Rome. 

There, leave me, and take from my chamber 

That wretched little gazelle, 
With its bright black eyes so meaningless, 

And its silly tinkling bell. 
Take him — my nerves he vexes — 

The thing without blood or brain, 
Or by the body of Isis, 

I will snap his thin neck in twain! 

Leave me to gaze at the landscape, 

Mistily stretching away. 
When the afternoon's opaline tremors 

O'er the mountains quivering play — 
Till the fiercer splendor of sunset 

Pours from the west its fire, 
And, melted as in a crucible, 

Their earthly forms expire — 
And the bald, blear skull of the desert 



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With glowing mountains is crowned, 
That, burning like molten jewels, 
Circle its temple round. 

I will lie and dream of the past time, 

Aeons of thought away; 
And through the jungles of memory 

Loosen my fancy to play, 
When, a smooth and velvety tiger, 

Ribbed with yellow and black, 
Supple and cushion-footed, 

I wandered where never the track 
Of a human creature had rustled 

The silence of mighty woods, 
And, fierce in a tyrannous freedom, 

I knew but the law of my moods* 
The elephant, trumpeting, started 

When he heard my footsteps near, 
And the spotted giraffe fled wildly 

In a cloud of yellow fear. 
I sucked in the moontide splendor 

Quivering along the glade, 
Or yawning, panting, and dreaming, 

Basked in the tamarind shade, 
Till I heard my mate roaring, 

As the shadows of night come on 
To brood in the tree's thick branches, 

And the shadow of my sleep was gone. 
Then I roused and roared in answer, 



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And unsheathed from my cushioned feet 
My curving claws and stretched me, 
And wandered my mate to greet. 

We toyed in the amber moonlight 

Upon the warm, flat sand, 
How powerful he was, and grand! 

His yellow eyes flashed fiercely 
As he crouched and gazed at me, 

And his quivering tail, like a serpent, 
Twitched, curving nervously. 

Then, like a storm he seized me, 
With a wild, triumphant cry, 

And we met, as two clouds in heaven, 
When the thunder before them fly. 

We grappled and struggled together, 
For his love, like his rage, was rude; 

And his teeth in the swelling folds of my 
neck 

At times, in our play, drew blood. 

Often another suitor — 

For I was flexile and fair — 
Fought for me in the moonlight 

While I lay crouching there, 
Till his blood was drained by the desert, 

And, baffled with triumph and power, 
He licked and lay beside me 

To breathe him a vast half hour. 



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Then down in the fountain we loitered, 

Where the antelopes came to drink; 
Like a bolt we sprung upon them, 

Ere they had time to shrink: 
We drank their blood and crushed them, 

And tore them limb from limb, 
And the hungriest lion doubted 

Ere we disputed with him. 

That was a life to live for! 

Not this weak human life, 
With its frivolous, bloodless passions, 

Its poor and petty strife! 
Come to my arms, my hero? 

The shadows of twilight grow, 
And the tiger's ancient fierceness 

In my veins begins to flow, 
Come not cringeing to sue me! 

Take me with triumph and power, 
As a warrior that storms a fortress — 

I will not shrink or cower. 
Come, as you came in the desert 

Ere we were women and men, 
When the tiger spell was on us, 

And love as you loved me then 



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